Cesare Dandini

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Cesare Dandini (1 October 1596 – 7 February 1657) was an Italian Baroque painter from Florence. He was the older brother of Vincenzo Dandini. His nephew Pietro Dandini studied with Vincenzo, and Pietro’s sons Ottaviano Dandini and the Jesuit priest Vincenzo also worked as painters in Florence.

Dandini trained with several Florence masters—Francesco Curradi, Cristofano Allori, and Domenico Passignano—and joined the Accademia del Disegno in 1621. His paintings show a Florentine taste for bold color contrasts and elegant, clear linework, with polish and careful design similar to Carlo Dolci.

Among his pupils were Stefano della Bella, Alessandro Rosi, Antonio Giusti, Giovanni Domenico Ferrucci, and Jacopo Giorgi. In 2020, a lost painting by Dandini, Holy Family with the Infant St. John, was found in a church in New Rochelle, New York. The work is part of a small group of related paintings; one is in the Hermitage, another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a fourth was in a private New York City collection.