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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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    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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    17th-century art historical biographer Gian Pietro Bellori, though Denis Mahon suggests 1602–1604. According to Bellori, Caravaggio produced the piece at the...
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    for Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX), who according to Gian Pietro Bellori dictated its detailed iconography. The identity of the figures remains...
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    prostitute, possibly his mistress, as the Virgin. Giovanni Baglione and Gian Pietro Bellori attributed the rejection to the appearance of the Virgin. The breach...
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    first expressed many of the views better known from the writings of Gian Pietro Bellori a generation later. He was also an amateur astronomer who corresponded...
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    its 1593 publication, was Cesare Ripa's emblem book Iconologia. Gian Pietro Bellori, a 17th-century biographer of artists of his own time, describes...
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    17th-century critic Gian Pietro Bellori, who had not known him but was under the influence of the earlier Giovanni Battista Agucchi and Bellori's friend Poussin...
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    National Gallery, St Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi...
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    Flagellation by Caravaggio of the same period. According to art biographer Gian Pietro Bellori (1672), this work was commissioned by the di Franco (or de Franchis)...
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    Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Gian Pietro Bellori, 2 paintings of Achilles in Skyros, one now in the Museum of Fine...
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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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    frescoed by Cherubino Alberti with a Triumph of the Holy Cross. Gian Pietro Bellori wrote that the pope was supplied with preparatory sketches. The pope...
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    Antonio Antolini, Via Anselmo Banduri, Via Giovanni Becatti, Via Gian Pietro Bellori, Via Enrico Brunn, Via Guido Calza, Via Secondiano Campanari, Via...
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    1599–1641, Milano, RCS Libri, 1999, ISBN 88-17-86060-3. (in Italian) Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi...
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    a popular subject in art. List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi...
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    Decades after the painting's completion, 17th-century art biographer Gian Pietro Bellori opined that Caravaggio had feigned religious imagery by adding items...
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    about by such critics as Giulio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione (1642), Gian Pietro Bellori (1672) and Francesco Scanelli (1657). The painting was taken to Paris...
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    archbishop saint Ambrose, as punishment for the Massacre of Thessalonica. Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi...
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    The commissioner of this relief is unknown. Regarding this oeuvre, Gian Pietro Bellori said: [Duquesnoy] fece una Baccanale della medesima grandezza [as...
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    with engravings of 400 additional specimens. In conjunction with Gian Pietro Bellori (1615–1696) he published Gemme antiche figurate, a work on antique...
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    standing Atlas figures (Atlantes) help support the painted framework. Gian Pietro Bellori, a biographer of seventeenth-century artists and Platonic apologist...
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  • cartographer, topographer and engraver (born 1628) date unknown Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists (born 1613)...
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    According to the seventeenth-century art critic and biographer Gian Pietro Bellori, the patron was primarily responsible for formulating the iconography...
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    Anthony van Dyck "Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) - Cupid and Psyche". Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi...
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  • 1686) date unknown Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter (died 1669) Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists (died 1696)...
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    in Rome. A stucco copy is housed at the Galleria Spada in Rome. Gian Pietro Bellori described this oeuvre thusly: [Duquesnoy] figurò l'Amor divino che...
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    collection to the Prado. List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck Sources Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Turín, Einaudi...
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    of France as early as 1685. List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck Gian Pietro Bellori, Vite de' pittori, scultori e architecti moderni, Torino, Einaudi...
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  • Pierino del Vaga, Titian and Donatello. Other sources used include Gian Pietro Bellori and Carlo Cesare Malvasia. Dismissive of Nicolas Poussin, Aglionby...
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