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Article: The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Giovan Pietro Bellori. The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition.
Ed. Hellmut Wohl. Trans, Alice Sedgwick Wohl. Intro. Tomaso Montanari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii + 504 pp. index. append. illus. gloss. chron. bibl. $130. ISBN: 0-521-78187-6.
The editio princeps of Bellori's Lives appeared in 1672 with a dedication to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a note to the reader, and a passage from Philostratus's Imagines. After these came a prefatory essay entitled "The Idea of the Painter, the Sculptor, and the Architect" (which Bellori had first delivered as a lecture to the Roman Academy ...