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    Giovanni Pietro Bellori (15 January 1613 – 19 February 1696), also known as Giovan Pietro Bellori or Gian Pietro Bellori, was an Italian art theorist,...
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    cit., p. 161 Giovanni Baglione: The Life of Michelagnolo da Caravaggio, in Giulio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, Giovanni Pietro Bellori: Lives of Caravaggio...
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    da Vinci and his The Battle of Anghiari, though the biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori has attributed it to Anthony van Dyck. It is now in the Alte Pinakothek...
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    In The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Giovanni Pietro Bellori wrote a description of the painting that paraphrases Agucchi's...
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    nephew Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who became a well-known biographer of artists, antiquarian and archaeologist. Angeloni left his collections to Bellori on...
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    Considerazioni sulla pittura, c. 1617–1621 Giovanni Baglione's Le vite de' pittori, 1642 Giovanni Pietro Bellori's Le Vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti...
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    de' Dominici remarked on it, it was removed and presumably sold. Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1672) wrote "it depicts the serving maid pointing to Peter, who...
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    "Even in Arcadia, there am I". Poussin's earliest biographer, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, understood the 'I' of the phrase to refer to Death, thus making...
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    architetti moderni is a series of artist biographies written by Gian Pietro Bellori (1613–96), whom Julius von Schlosser called "the most important historiographer...
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    have been perceived as more inclined to copy than to create. Even Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who included Agostino Carracci in his selective collection of...
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  • epistemologically privileged mode of access to truth. In 1664, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Roman art theorist and close friend of Poussin, gave a lecture...
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  • knew most of his subjects personally. Baglione's young friend Giovanni Pietro Bellori contributed a long appreciative prefatory poem to Baglione's Vite...
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    biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori (who was also a great friend of Sacchi's), Andrea initially entered the studio of Cavalier d'Arpino. These are Bellori's words:...
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    articles The lives of the modern painters, sculptors and architects – Giovanni Pietro Bellori Vatican Press Office guide – buildings of the Vatican Archived...
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    Felsina pittrice, published in 1678. Together with his contemporary Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Malvasia is considered "among the best informed and most intelligent...
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    seems that the oldest recorded title is il trionfo di Nettunno by Giovanni Pietro Bellori (d. 1698). The matter was the subject of considerable scholarly...
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    Annibale Carracci, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art According to Giovanni Pietro Bellori and Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Annibale Carracci's main 17th-century...
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    viceroy of that city for seven years. With him he a took a painting Giovanni Pietro Bellori described as "la Crocifissione di Santo Andrea". The painting was...
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    Wittkower, R. Art & Architecture in Italy 1600–1750, Pelican, 263–5 Gian Pietro Bellori, "Life of Nicolas Poussin" in The Lives of the Modern Painters, sculptors...
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    ex cavernis et specubus subterraneis, with Alexander Duke and Giovanni Pietro Bellori 1691 & 1704; 119 plates. Scenes from the life of St. Peter; after...
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    reproduce, That they too may believe it.) Caravaggio's biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori relates that the artist picked the Romani girl out from passers-by...
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    1498–99 is put on the work by Padre Sebastiano Resta, who wrote to Giovanni Pietro Bellori saying that Leonardo had drawn the cartoon in Milan at the request...
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    Amor, although this did not become its title until the critic Giovanni Pietro Bellori wrote his life of Caravaggio in 1672. Inevitably, much scholarly...
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    reached the borders of passion, as can be seen in this excerpt by Giovanni Pietro Bellori: Painters and sculptors, choosing from among the most elegant beauties...
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    – Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter (d. 1699) January 15 – Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Italian art historian (d. 1696) January 21 – George Gillespie...
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    collection, where it was mentioned by Carlo Cesare Malvasia (1678) and Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1672), with the latter stating that Carracci painted the work...
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    The Seasons. Nicolas Poussin's early biographer was his friend Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who relates that Poussin was born near Les Andelys in Normandy...
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    cit., p. 161 Giovanni Baglione: The Life of Michelagnolo da Caravaggio, in Giulio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, Giovanni Pietro Bellori: Lives of Caravaggio...
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    Erasmus Quellinus II and Peter Paul Rubens. Both Giovanni Battista Passeri and Giovanni Pietro Bellori stressed the fame of the Van den Eynde's putti,...
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  • the important collection belonging to the Roman archaeologist Giovanni Pietro Bellori. After a longer interval, in which Friedrich Wilhelm I exchanged...
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