Cesare Dandini
Italian painter (1596-1657)
Cesare Dandini (1 October 1596– 7 February 1657) was an Italian Baroque painter, active mainly in his native city of Florence.
Biography
He was the older brother of the painter Vincenzo Dandini (1609–1675). His nephew, Pietro was a pupil of Vincenzo, and Pietro's two sons, Ottaviano Dandini and the Jesuit priest Vincenzo also worked as painters in Florence.
According to the biographer Baldinucci, Cesare first worked under Francesco Curradi, then Cristofano Allori, and finally Domenico Passignano. He enrolled in 1621 in the Accademia del Disegno. Dandini displayed a Florentine tradition of bold color contrasts and elegant, linear compositions. His style has the polish and attention to draughtsmanship and design characteristic of Florentines like Carlo Dolci.
Among his pupils were Stefano della Bella, Alessandro Rosi, the landscape painter Antonio Giusti, Giovanni Domenico Ferrucci, and Jacopo Giorgi.
Lost painting found
In 2020, a lost painting by Dandini "Holy Family with the Infant St. John" was found in a church in New Rochelle, New York by Iona College Art History Professor Thomas Ruggio.
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