Giovan Peitro 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521139546
• ISBN13: 9780521139540
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.4" x 10.9"