Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Hellmut Wohl

Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Hellmut Wohl

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.

'The translation of this very important book is accompanied by a superb introduction by Montanari, engrossing reading for all students of the BaroqueThe combination of the synthetic essay and the primary source newly edited yields a work that is absolutely essential for all libraries that collect art history.' Choice
'Giovan Pietro Bellori's language has found its match in Wohl's translation… We shall all learn from reading this intelligent and skilful translation.' Burlington Magazine

Alice Sedgwick Wohl is an independent scholar and translator. She has translated Antonio Condivi, Life of Michelangelo. Hellmut Wohl is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Boston University. He is the author of The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano and The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art. Tomaso Montanari is Professore associato di Storia dell'arte moderna at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata. He is the author of numerous publications on aspects of Italian Baroque art.

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ISBN 13	9780521139540
ISBN 10	0521139546
Title	Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Author	Hellmut Wohl
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2009-11-16
Number of pages	516
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