Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: Commentary and Translation |
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | ix |
PREFACE | xiii |
MALVASIAS LIFE AND THE PROJECT OF THE FELSINA PITTRICE | 6 |
Malvasias Years in Rome | 9 |
Return to Bologna and the Project for the Lives | 16 |
The Completion of the Felsina and Malvasias Last Years | 24 |
PUBLICATION HISTORY AND THE RECEPTION OF THE FELSINA | 29 |
THE GENRE OF LIVES OF PAINTERS | 38 |
STYLE | 67 |
THE FABLE OF THE BEES | 74 |
NOTE TO THE TRANSLATION | 78 |
LIFE OF LUDOVICO AGOSTINO AND ANNIBALE CARRACCI | 81 |
LIST OF BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS IN THE LIFE | 357 |
ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES | 361 |
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Accademia Achillini Agostino Carracci Agucchi Albani altarpiece Angeloni Annibale Carracci Annibale's Aprosio artists Baglione beautiful Bellori Bologna Bolognese Boschini Cardinal caricature Carlo Carracci Academy Cesare Cesare Rinaldi chapel Christ church collection color commission composition copy Correggio cupids dated death DeGrazia Dempsey described discussion Dolcini Domenichino drawings Duke earlier edition engraving etchings Faberio famous Farnese Gallery Feigenbaum Felsina figure Florence Francesco fresco Fresnoy frieze funeral Gelati Giovanni Guido Reni hand imitation invention landscape later letter literary lovely Ludovico Carracci Madonna Magnani Malva Marino masters mentioned Michelangelo painters painting palace Palazzo Palazzo Fava Parma Parmigianino passage Perini picture Pietro Pinacoteca Nazionale pittura Plate poem portrait Posner praise preface prints published quotation racci Raphael rhetorical Rinaldi Roger de Piles Roman Rome Saint Jerome Scannelli seen sentence Signor style three Carracci Tintoretto tion Titian Vasari vasia Venetian Venice Venus Virgin words writing Zapperi