Full Name: Baldinucci, Filippo
Gender: male
Date Born: 1625
Date Died: 1697
Place Born: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Place Died: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): connoisseurship and drawings (visual works)
Career(s): art collectors
Overview
Collector of drawings and connoisseur; worked on a universal history of art. An annotated translation of his life of Bernini was annotated and translated into German by the eminent Austrian art historian Aloïs Riegl, published in 1912.
Selected Bibliography
Notizie de’ professori del disegno da Cimabue : in qua, per le quali si dimostra come, e per chi le bell’ arti di pittura, scultura, e architettura lasciata la rozzezza delle maniere greca, e gottica, si siano in questi secoli ridotte all’ antica loro perfezione. 1658.; Vocabulario toscano dell’arte del disegno. Florence: Santi Franchi, 1681.; Vita del Cavaliere Gio Lorenzo Bernini. 1682; Riegl, Alois, and Burda, Arthur, and Pollak, Oskar, eds. Filippo Baldinuccis vita des Gio. Lorenzo Bernini: mit übersetzung und Kommentar. Vienna: A. Schroll, 1912.
Sources
Bazin 53