Dolci, Carlo (1616-1686)

Italian painter of the late baroque period. He was active in Florence, creating intensely emotional versions of religious subjects such as The Martyrdom of St Andrew (1646; Pitti, Florence).

Dolci was the foremost painter in Florence of his day and continued to be much admired in the 18th century. He was also a portraitist, and was sent to Austria 1675 to paint the Medici wife of the emperor Leopold I.