Giovan Pietro Bellori: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Subtitle: A New Translation and Critical Edition
Contributors: Tomaso Montanari (Introduction); Alice Sedgwick Wohl (Translator)
Edition: Tra edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780521781879
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Individual architects; Individual artists; Early works to 1800; Artists; 17th century; History - Renaissance; Biography / Autobiography; Clip Art; Art; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Art / General; Europe; Italy; Art, European; Biography
First sentence: Thus did William Aglionby recount, in 1685, in Painting illustrated in three diallogues, the crisis and rebirth of Italian painting, events of nearly a hundred years earlier.