DAUPHIN, Charles

French painter, called Carlo Dolfino in Italy. By about 1640, he had joined in Paris the studio of Simon Vouet where he worked There he works alongside François Tortebat (1616-1690) and Michel Dorigny. In 1647, he married in Paris. When Vouet died in 1649, his studio dispersed.

Dauphin went to Turin about the year 1652, and worked there for the Prince of Carignano. He was also employed in local churches. In the church of San Carlo is an altarpieceGLOSSARYA picture or sculpture that stands on or is set up behind an altar. The term reredos is used for an ornamental screen or partition, not directly attached to the altar table but affixed to the wall behind it. A diptych is an altarpiece consisting of two panels, a triptych one of three panels, and a polyptych one of four or more panels. From the 14th to 16th century, the altarpiece was one of the most important commissions in European art; it was through the altarpiece that some of the most decisive developments in painting and sculpture came about. by him.