La Poesia

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After Carlo Dolci
La Poesia
oil on canvas
58.1 x 44.2 cm.
in a carved and gilded frame inlaid with marble and eight octagonal miniature portraits on silvered copper of Titian, Raphael, Rubens, Dolci, Andrea del Sarto, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Niccolò Cassana

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Lot Essay

After the work by Dolci in the Galleria Corsini, Florence. According to the inscription on the reverse of the original, Dolci painted the Poesia between July 1648 and December 1649 for Carlo Buontempi. The Poesia is perhaps Dolci's most famous work and soon after its creation was lauded in treatises on Florentine art and guidebooks to the city, for example those by Filippo Baldinucci (1681-1728) and Lanzi (1795-1796).

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