The lives of the modern painters, sculptors and architects / Giovan Pietro Bellori ; translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl ; notes by Hellmut Wohl ; introduction by Tomaso Montanari.

Main entry:

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1613-1696.

Title & Author:

The lives of the modern painters, sculptors and architects / Giovan Pietro Bellori ; translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl ; notes by Hellmut Wohl ; introduction by Tomaso Montanari.

Edition:

New translation and critical ed.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Description:

xii, 504 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-464) and index.
Philostratus the Younger -- The idea of the painter, the sculptor and the architect -- Life of Annibale Carracci -- Life of Agostino Carracci -- Life of Domenico Fontana -- Life of Federico Barocci -- Life of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio -- Life of Peter Paul Rubens -- Life of Anthony van Dyck -- Life of Francois Du Quesnoy -- Life of Domenico Zampieri, il Domenichino -- Life of Giovanni Lanfranco -- Life of Alessandro Algardi -- Life of Nicolas Poussin -- Life of Guido Reni -- Life of Andrea Sacchi -- Life of Carlo Maratti -- App. Bellori's accuracy -- App. Orientation in Bellori's descriptions.

Summary:

"This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. Originally conceived as a continuation of Vasari's famous Lives, it is a fundamental source for seventeenth-century Italian art and artistic theory, providing detailed descriptions of extant and lost works of art, while casting light on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Bellori's Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the author's detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942"--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0521781876 (hardback)
9780521781879 (hardback)
9780521139540 (pbk.)
0521139546

Subject:

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro.
Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni.
Artists Europe Biography Early works to 1800.
Artists Italy Biography Early works to 1800.
Art, European 17th century Early works to 1800.
Art, Renaissance Early works to 1800.
Art européen 16e siècle Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art de la Renaissance Ouvrages avant 1800.
Artistes Europe Biographies Ouvrages avant 1800.
Artistes Italie Biographies Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art européen 17e siècle Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art, Renaissance
Art, European
Artists
Künstler
Beeldende kunstenaars.
Europe
Italy
Italië.

Form/genre:

Biography
Early works to 1800.
Collective biographies.
Biographies
Early works

Added entries:

Wohl, Hellmut.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 250037
Call No.: N6756 .B45 2005
Status: Available

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