Giancarlo Dughetti (Florence 1931 – Vignola 1986) - Portrait

Giancarlo Dughetti (Florence 1931 – Vignola 1986) – Portrait MINIATURE: Signed, dated and titled at the bottom. oil on panel 4.5x6 cm wooden frame: 32x33.5cm Giancarlo Dughetti (Florence, March 10, 1931 – Vignola, January 16, 1986) Older brother of the engraver Roberto Dughetti, he was a student of Pietro Annigoni. In 1954 he made his debut with his first solo exhibition as a miniaturist in the Lyceum in Florence. In 1962 he married Anna Romagnoli. From those years he began to create 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 of Florence, presided over 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 kept in the Pontifical Collections at the Vatican Palaces. A youthful Self-Portrait (1954) is kept by the Uffizi