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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
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)
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Bernardo Cavallino (Italian, 1616–1656) — Adoration of the S
Francesco Trevisani (Italian, 1656–1746) — Presentation Sket
Luca Giordano — The Flight into Egypt
Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734–1802) — The Holy Family
Sebastiano Conca — The Adoration of the Shepherds
Raffaello Vanni — The Holy Family
Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Morazzone — The Adoratio
Carlo Maratti — The Flight into Egypt
Sebastiano Ricci — The Holy Family with Angels
Pieter Codde — The Adoration of the Shepherds
Lorenzo Lotto — The Nativity
Anton Raphael Mengs — The Adoration of the Shepherds
