Full Name: Passeri, Giovanni Battista
Gender: male
Date Born: c. 1610
Date Died: 1679
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): biography (general genre)
Career(s): art historians and biographers
Overview
Vasari emulator; lively, anecdotal biographies of artists. Some of his material was borrowed from the Le vite de’ pittori, scultori & architetti, 1642, of Giovanni Baglione. Passeri’s work was edited and published by Jacob Hess in the 1920s and 1930s..
Selected Bibliography
Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori, e architetti. 1678
Sources
Bazin 54