Giancarlo Dughetti (Florence 1931 - Vignola 1986) - Vines in spring

MINIATURE: Signed, dated and titled below.

Oil on tablet 8,5x11,5cm

wooden frame: 38x35,5cm

Giancarlo Dughetti (Florence, 10 March 1931 - Vignola, 16 January 1986)

Older brother of the engraver Roberto Dughetti, he was a pupil of Pietro Annigoni.

In 1954 he made his debut with his first solo exhibition as a miniaturist in the premises of the Lyceum in Florence. In 1962 he married Anna Romagnoli. From those years he began to make miniature and pastel portraits of well-known Italian and foreign personalities. He held exhibitions in New York, London, New Zealand and Australia. In Italy he exhibited in Florence, Milan, Rome, Pisa, Verona, Mestre and Montecatini Terme. Between 1979 and 1980, commissioned by the Camerata dei Poeti in Florence, chaired by Adolfo Oxilia, he carried out studies in the Vatican for a Portrait of Pope Wojtyla made the following year in a miniature on ivory preserved in the Pontifical Collections at the Vatican Palaces

One of his early self-portrait (1954) is preserved in the Uffizi