Giovanni Bellori

Giovanni Bellori was an important figure in the seventeenth century Roman artworld. His Idea of Beauty, first given as a lecture to the Academia di San Luca, in Rome, 1664, provides modern art historians with a detailed concept of what was valued (by some) in painting and sculpture in Seicento Italy. Along with Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, Bellori's Idea is the one of the most useful primary sources concerning Italian Renaissance art.

Related Topics:
Roman - Academia di San Luca - Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Artists

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