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Giovan Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Although best known today for his art criticism and biographies of artists he knew personally, he was also renowned for his knowledge of coins, gems, and ancient painting. This collection of essays presents new findings about Bellori's multifarious activities as well as fresh interpretations of his ideas. As a frank, unbiased reevaluation of its subject, the study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of Bellori's place in seventeenth-century letters and politics, art criticism, and antiquarian studies.
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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Belloriana methodus: A Scholar's Bildungsgeschichte in Seventeenth-Century Rome | 55 |
| 2 | Antiquarian Modes and Methods: Bellori and Filippo Buonarroti the Younger | 75 |
| 3 | Bellori and Christina of Sweden | 94 |
| 4 | Bellori, Fabretti, and Trajan's Column | 127 |
| 5 | Bellori as Iconographer: The Veterum illustrium ... imagines | 145 |
| 6 | From Darkness to Light: Annibale Carracci, Bellori, and Ancient Painting | 170 |
| 7 | The Allegorical Engravings in Bellori's Lives | 191 |
| 8 | Con modo nuovo li descrive: Bellori's Descriptive Method | 224 |
| 9 | Scherzo: Hidden Meaning, Genre, and Generic Criticism in Bellori's Lives | 239 |
| 10 | Bellori's Analysis of Colore in Domenichino's Last Communion of St. Jerome | 257 |
| 11 | The Second Edition of Bellori's Lives: Placing Luca Giordano in the Canon of Moderns | 278 |
| Notes | 293 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 375 | |
| Index | 385 |
Overview
Giovan Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Although best known today for his art criticism and biographies of artists he knew personally, he was also renowned for his knowledge of coins, gems, and ancient painting. This collection of essays presents new findings about Bellori's multifarious activities as well as fresh interpretations of his ideas. As a frank, unbiased reevaluation of its subject, the study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of ...