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Giancarlo Dughetti (1931 -1986) was an Italian painter and miniaturist. He was the older brother of the engraver Roberto Dughetti. Read the full biography

Giancarlo Dughetti (1931 -1986) was an Italian painter and miniaturist. He was the older brother of the engraver Roberto Dughetti. In fact, in 1954 he made his debut with his first solo exhibition as a miniaturist in the premises of the Lyceum in Florence. 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, he carried out studies in the Vatican for a Portrait of Pope Wojtyla created the following year in a miniature on ivory preserved in the Pontifical Collections in the Vatican Palaces. His works are preserved, among others, in the Uffizi, Geneva - Petit Palais Museum, Tehran - Contemporary Art Museum, Florence, Modern Art Gallery.