Only two works in Paolini's oeuvre can be dated with any certainty. They are the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine signed and dated 1636 and the Birth of Saint John the Baptist commissioned the following year for Santa Maria Corteorlandini. These are both dateable to immediately after the artist's return to Lucca. The rest of his body of work is largely undocumented.Pietro Paolini, called il Lucchese (Lucca 1603-1681), A young man holding bagpipes standing beside a table with a lute, a tambourine and a book of music at Bonhams
