ISBN10: 0521781876, ISBN13: 9780521781879, [publisher: CAMBRIDGE U.P., CAMBRIDGE] Softcover 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 Vasaris 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 on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Belloris Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the authors detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942.
[Madrid, MAD, Spain] [Publication Year: 2014]
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Cambridge University Press 2005 Critical ed. Hardcover Used-Very Good This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, 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 on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Bellori's Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the author's detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942. BEAUTIFUL COPY! ! ! Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector...

ISBN10: 0521781876, ISBN13: 9780521781879, [publisher: Cambridge University Press November 2005] Hardcover This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Carvaggio, 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 on the cultural politics of contemporary Rome and the relations between Rome and France. The importance of Bellori's Lives lies in the scrupulous documentation of artists, many of whom he knew personally; the author's detailed descriptions of their works; and his exposition of the classicist theory of art in the introductory lecture, the Idea. This volume contains the twelve Lives published in the original edition of 1672 and three Lives (Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi, and Carlo Maratti) that survive in manuscript form and that were published for the first time in 1942. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!! Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.
[Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0521781876, ISBN13: 9780521781879, [publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover XII and 504 pages. Original cloth with original dustjacket (very good and clean copy). 29 x 22 cm. 2250 gr.
[Berlin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2005]
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New York: Cambridge University Press, Date: 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in maroon cloth boards. No dust jacket. First edition. Book is crisp and clean, with neat yellow highlighting on five pages. The first complete translation of Bellori's 17th-century critical biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin. Illustrated. 4to. 504 pp. including notes (by Hellmut Wohl) and index. Heavy--may require additional postage for shipping outside the U.S. 2005. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521781876 9780521781879 [US]