Vincenzo Dandini

1609 – 1675

Italian painter, part of a family of painters, brother of Cesare Dandini. He first trained with his brother and then matriculated in the Accademia del Disegno in 1631. He worked in Rome c. 1635-36, studying ancient and modern works and also as a member of Pietro da Cortona 's workshop. He then returned to Florence and collaborated over the next two decades with his elder brother. He often worked for the Medici court, particularly for Lorenzo de' Medici, for whom he painted the Adoration of Niobe and Venus, Mercury and Cupid (1637-38; Florence, Uffizi), and later for the Medici tapestry factory (1662-63). Besides working in fresco and making cartoons for tapestries, he produced numerous paintings on literary and religious themes, for example the signed and dated SS Carlo Borromeo and Andrea Zoerandro (1657; Arezzo, Santa Maria in Gradi) and SS Bernardino of Siena and Giovanni Capestrano Adoring the Name of Jesus (1667; Florence, Museo Ognissanti). His drawings are clearly influenced by his brother and by Pietro da Cortona. Those studies and copies from the Dandini studio collection inscribed V.D.v. are probably done by him. As with Cesare, his style became more animated and dramatic in later works. Pupils of Vincenzo included his nephew Pietro Dandini and Anton Domenico Gabbiani. Vincenzo emerges as a significant artistic personality, displaying at times a great truth to nature and sense of humanity.

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