Filippo Baldinucci, a painter and savvy connoisseur of art, intensively examined the question of historiographical writing. With his monumental collection of biographies, Notizie de' Professori del disegno (1681-1728), he distanced himself from biographical literature oriented toward Vasari's Vite, and wrote a scholarly, well-founded European history of art adhering to encyclopedic standards with a source-critical and scholarly basis. A close reading...