Bellori caravaggio biography

Among the early critics who wrote more than a few lines on Caravaggio, Bellori is probably the most intelligent and certainly the most learned.
This collection presents the most important early biographies of Caravaggio, the enigmatic and notorious Italian painter who forever altered the course of.
The Lives of Caravaggio is comprised of the earliest three biographies of the Italian Baroque master, revealing how his revolutionary painting and tempestuous.

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Lives of Caravaggio

Giulio Mancini (1559-1630) was an Italian physicist, art collector, art dealer, and writer. His Considerazioni sulle pitture was an important source on the art world in seventeenth-century Italy, and his biographies of his contemporaries such as Caravaggio and Annibale Caracci offer the earliest sources on the lives and work of important artists in Baroque Rome.

Giovanni Baglione (1566-1643) was an Italian painter and art historian. Although many of his works can be found in Roman churches and European collections, he is perhaps best known for his contentious relationship with Caravaggio, which resulted in Baglione suing Caravaggio and other artists in his circle for libel over a claim that Baglione had plagiarized Caravaggio’s style. Baglione’s book The Lives of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers active from 1772-1642 (Le Vite de’pittori, sculturi, architette ed intalgliatori…) published in Rome in 1642, includes the biographies of over two hundred artists and is still considered an important historical source for information about artists l

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Giovanni Pietro Bellori

Italian painter (1613–1696)

Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Gian Pietro Bellori, portrait by Carlo Maratta
Born	(1613-01-15)January 15, 1613 Rome, Papal States
Died	February 19, 1696(1696-02-19) (aged 83) Rome, Papal States
Resting place	Church of S. Isidoro
Occupation(s)	Biographer, painter, librarian, art historian, historian, archaeologist
Known for	Lives of the Artists
Parent(s)	Giacomo Bellori and Artemetia Bellori (née Giannotti)
Influences
Discipline	Classical archaeology, art history, aesthetics
Influenced

Giovanni Pietro Bellori (15 January 1613 – 19 February 1696),^[7] also known as Giovan Pietro Bellori or Gian Pietro Bellori, was an Italian art theorist, painter and antiquarian, who is best known for his work Lives of the Artists, considered the seventeenth-century equivalent to Vasari's Vite. His Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti Moderni,^[8] published in 1672, was influential in consolidating and promoting the theoretical case for classical ide

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The Lives of the Artists (Bellori)

Book by Gian Pietro Bellori

Cover to the 1672 edition.
Author	Gian Pietro Bellori
Original title	Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni
Language	Italian
Subject	Artist biographies
Publisher	Mascardi, Rome (1672)
Publication date	1672, 1728
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	2005 (in full)

The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects or Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni is a series of artist biographies written by Gian Pietro Bellori (1613–96), whom Julius von Schlosser called "the most important historiographer of art not only of Rome, but all Italy, even of Europe, in the seventeenth century".^[1] It is one of the foundational texts of the history and criticism of European art.^[2]

The first edition (1672) contained biographies of nine painters (Annibale and Agostino Carracci, Barocci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Domenichino, Lanfranco, and Poussin), two sculptors (François Duquesnoy and Alessandro Alg