CARDUCCI, VINCENZO

born 1578, Florence died 1638, Madrid Spanish Vicente Carducho Italian-born painter. Carducci was the brother of artist Bartolommeo Carducci, whom he accompanied to Spain in 1585. Vincenzo succeeded his brother in 1609 as court painter to Philip III. Trained by his brother in the style of Italian Mannerism, he was one of the leading artists in Madrid until the arrival of Velzquez. Vincenzo painted three battle scenes for the Buen Retiro palace (now in the Prado Museum), but he was chiefly a religious painter. He wrote the Dilogos de la Pintura (1633), an academic treatise on art.