Poesia

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After Carlo Dolci
Poesia
with signature 'Ciardi Egisto' (on the reverse of the unlined canvas, upper centre)
with label 'Egisto Ciardi wahrscheinlich aus einer Florentinischen Künstlerfamilie der zweiten Hälfte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts stammend. - Nach ein biograph. Notiz (neapol. Arezio [?]) ein Verwandter Der Grüder Paolo Giovanni Battitsa u. Lorenzo Ciardi Portrait und Kirchenmaler' (on the reverse, upper centre)
oil on canvas, unlined
22½ x 17½ in. (57.2 x 44.5 cm.)
in a carved giltwood frame with four painted vignettes of Dante, Petrarch and other poets and four landscapes, further decorated with roundels of simulated lapis lazuli and malachite, 42 x 36½ in. (106.7 x 92.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

After the work by Dolci in the Galleria Corsini, Florence. 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 and Lanzi.

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