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| Title | : | Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521139546 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 516 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-31 |
| Language | : | English |
Excellent writing. needs to have an appendix where the Excellent writing. needs to have an appendix where the many paintings he is referencing in the book are shown(in small format). That could not be done in Bellori's day but certainly could be now and would greatly improve this excellent book.
He is the author of numerous publications on aspects of Italian Baroque art. She has translated Antonio Condivi, Life of Michelangelo.Hellmut Wohl is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Boston University. Alice Sedgwick Wohl is an independent scholar and translator. He is the author of The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano and The Aesthetics of I
The 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 . 'The translation of this very important book is accompanied by a superb introduction by Montanari, engrossing reading for all students of the Baroque
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 tim
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