L'Idea Del Bello: Viaggio Per Roma Nel Seicento Con Giovan Pietro Bellori de Borea, Evelina & Lucilla De Lachenal

Edizioni de Luca, Palazzo delle Esposizioni ed ex Teatro dei Dioscuri, Roma 2000 (exhibition catalogue). 30.0 x 24.0cms, 102pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good paperback & cover Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613 - 1696), also known as Giovan Pietro Bellori or Gian Pietro Bellori, was an Italian painter and antiquarian who wrote biographies of 17th century artists. His Lives of the Artists (Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti Moderni, published in 1672, promoted the theoretical case for classical idealism in art. It covers the brothers Annibale Carracci and Agostino Carracci, Domenico Fontana, Federico Barocci, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Francois Duquesnoy, Domenico Zampieri (il Domenichino), Giovanni Lanfranco, Alessandro Algardi and Nicolas Poussin. Italian text only.