Portrait of Ainolfo de' Bardi
by DOLCI, Carlo, Oil on canvas, 150 x 119 cm
This portrait was painted by Dolci, as appears from an inscription on the back, at the age of sixteen years; and it surpasses both for the conception and the success and brilliance of the execution of later pictures by this precocious artist.
Fra Ainolfo de’ Bardi, Knight of Jerusalem, was a very notable soldier and man of politics in his day. He was born in 1573 and died in 1638.