Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009795Adoration of the Shepherds
by Carlo Dolci
About the Artwork
The historical significance of the Baroque painter Carlo Dolci, a precocious artist whose skill was recognized early by the leading Florentine patrons of his time, is often diminished due to his traditionalist compositions. Having gained local reputation as a talented portraitist and painter of religious narrative, Dolci's anti-Mannerist technique dismissed many of the leading Baroque trends as superfluous, retaining an unobtrusive and placid style in the manner of those before him. Having been a devout follower of the brotherhood of St. Benedict, Dolci draws upon a strict Christian iconography in his depiction of the shepherds' witness account of the birth of Christ. --Charles Eppley (January 2009)
Exhibition history
Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). Carlo Dolci: Firenze, 1616-1686. Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, Italy (organizer) (June 30-November 15, 2015). The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA (organizer) (February 8-July 9, 2017); Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (August 4, 2017-January 14, 2018).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Carlo Dolci (Italian, 1616–1687)
- Date
- c. 1670
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 108 x 90.2 x 7.7 cm (42 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 88.6 x 70.5 cm (34 7/8 x 27 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1968.22
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