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| 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 Algardi), and one architect (Domenico Fontana). The book was dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Colbert and published with French financial support.[3]
- ^ Von Schlosser, Julius Ritter (1924). Die Kunstliteratur: Ein Handbuch zur Quellenkunde der neueren Kunstgeschichte. Vienna: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co. p. 423.
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Cropperwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Zirpolo, Lilian (2007). "The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition by Giovan Pietro Bellori; Alice Sedgwick Wohl Review by: Lilian H. Zirpolo". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 38 (3): 805–807. doi:10.2307/20478523. JSTOR 20478523.