Hellmut wohl biography of albert

Cambridge University Press
0521781876 - Giovan Pietro Bellori - The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects - A New Translation and Critical Edition - by Alice Sedgwick Wohl, Hellmut Wohl and Tomaso Montanari
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GIOVAN PIETRO BELLORI

The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects

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