Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Giovanni Pietro Bellori (15 January 1613 – 19 February 1696), also known as Giovan Pietro Bellori or Gian Pietro Bellori, was an Italian art theorist, painter and antiquarian, who is best known for his work Lives of the Artists, considered the seventeenth-century equivalent to Vasari's Vite. His Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti Moderni, published in 1672, was influential in consolidating and promoting the theoretical case for classical idealism in art. As an art historical biographer, he favoured classicising artists rather than Baroque artists to the extent of omitting some of the key artistic figures of 17th-century art altogether.
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Gian Pietro Bellori, portrait by Carlo Maratta | |
| Born | January 15, 1613 Rome, Papal States |
| Died | February 19, 1696 (aged 83) Rome, Papal States |
| Resting place | Church of S. Isidoro |
| Occupation(s) | Biographer, painter, librarian, art historian, historian, archaeologist |
| Known for | Lives of the Artists |
| Parent(s) | Giacomo Bellori and Artemetia Bellori (née Giannotti) |
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| Discipline | Classical archaeology, art history, aesthetics |
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