Ottaviano Dandini was the son of

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, and painted history in the style of his father. Some fresco paintings in the cloister of San Spirito, a picture of several Saints in

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, and his works in the church of the Magdalene at

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, evince the respectability of his talent. He afterward entered the

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, and died about 1750.

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