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Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition Hardcover - 2005

by Hellmut Wohl (Editor); Alice Wohl (Editor); Alice Wohl (Translator)

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This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, 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.

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Thus did William Aglionby recount, in 1685, in Painting illustrated in three diallogues, the crisis and rebirth of Italian painting, events of nearly a hundred years earlier.

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  • Title Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition
  • Author Hellmut Wohl (Editor); Alice Wohl (Editor); Alice Wohl (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Tra
  • Pages 504
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date November 21, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521781879 / 0521781876
  • Weight 3.56 lbs (1.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.06 x 8.64 x 1.58 in (28.09 x 21.95 x 4.01 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Artists - Italy, Artists - Europe
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003055948
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in maroon cloth boards. No dust jacket. First edition. Book is crisp and clean, with neat yellow highlighting on five pages. The first complete translation of Bellori's 17th-century critical biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin. Illustrated. 4to. 504 pp. including notes (by Hellmut Wohl) and index. Heavy--may require additional postage for shipping outside the U.S.
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