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Baldinucci, Filippo

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Baldinucci, Filippo (b Florence, 3 June 1625; d Florence, 1 Jan. 1696). Italian writer, collector, and amateur artist. His major work is Notizie de' professori del disegno (6 vols., 1681–1728; the last published posthumously), an encyclopedic collection of artists' biographies from Cimabue to his own time. It constitutes a kind of updating and expansion of Vasari's Lives and is particularly valuable for the information it gives about 16th-century Florentine artists and Baldinucci's contemporaries. He was an innovator as an art historian in making use of every kind of document. Apart from the Notizie, his most important work is his biography of Bernini (1682), the primary source for the artist's life. He wrote several other books, including a history of engraving and etching (1686), which contains one of the earliest accounts of Rembrandt's life (his information was supplied by Bernhard Keil, a former pupil of Rembrandt).

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Baldinucci, Filippo

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Baldinucci, Filippo (1625–96). Florentine writer, collector, and amateur artist. His Notizie de' professori del disegno (6 vols., 1681–1728) contains lives of artists from Cimabue to his own time and is particularly valuable for the information it gives about 16th-century Florentine artists and Baldinucci's contemporaries. He was an innovator as an art historian in making use of every kind of document. Apart from the Notizie, his most important work is his biography of Bernini (1682), the primary source for the artist's life. He also wrote a history of engraving (1686), which contains one of the earliest accounts of Rembrandt's life.

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IAN CHILVERS. "Baldinucci, Filippo." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-BaldinucciFilippo.html

IAN CHILVERS. "Baldinucci, Filippo." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-BaldinucciFilippo.html

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