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Biographies.

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Consists of early, anonymous translations of selections from van Mander's Het Schilderboek and Bellori's Vite de' Pittori. These early biographies of European artists have been called "basic sources" containing "valuable information," but also noted as being "gossipy" and occasionally flawed.

1 v. (226 leaves) ; 32 cm.

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Mander, Carel van, 1548-1606.

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Carel (or Karel) van Mander was a Flemish painter, poet, and artists' biographer who was born in Meulebeke, near Courtrai, West Flanders, Belgium. He travelled in Rome and Vienna, eventually settling in Haarlem, where he established an academy. He is perhaps best known for his Het Schilderboek. Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1615?-1696) was an Italian librarian, antiquarian, collector, and biographer. He excavated and described Roman antiquities. From the descripti...

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 1613?-1696

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Italian antiquarian, and librarian to ex-Queen Christina of Sweden. From the description of Letter to Giovanni Battista Doni, 1647. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 145986247 ...