GIORDANO AND CARLO DOLCI.

While sojourning in that city, he became acquainted with Carlo Dolci,

then advanced in years, who is said to have been so affected at seeing

the rapid Neapolitan execute in a few hours what would have required him

months to perform, in his own slow and laborious manner, that he fell

into a profound melancholy, of which he soon after died: This

circumstance Dominici assures us, Giordano long afterwards remembered

with tears, on being shown at Naples "a picture painted by poor

Carlino."

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