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Giovanni Pietro Bellori

Italian historian

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In art criticism: Art criticism in the 17th century: Programmatic theory
Art historian Giovanni Pietro Bellori similarly challenged Le Brun’s elevation of classicism. In Le vite de’ pittori, scultori, et architetti moderni (1672; “The Lives of Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”), he celebrates the rationality and classicism of Raphael’s art, but he also argues that the irrationality and…
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…17th century, the art historian Giovanni Pietro Bellori condemned the same painters Vasari had praised because they had abandoned the study of nature and adulterated the arts with maniera.
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