Filippo Baldinucci [SEP] occupation
Filippo Baldinucci
Filippo Baldinucci (3 June 1625 – 1 January 1697) was an Italian art historian and biographer.
Life.
Baldinucci is considered among the most significant Florentine biographers/historians of the artists and the arts of the Baroque period. Patronised by the Medici, he aspired to become the new Vasari by renewing and expanding his biographies of artists, to which Baldinucci added lives of French and Flemish artists omitted by Vasari. His most important work was this biographical dictionary of artists, "Notizie de' professori del
part posthumously. A second edition in six volumes with additional materials was edited by A. Matteoli (1725–30) and was reprinted in Rome, 1975.
- "Vita del cav. Gio. Lorenzo Bernino, Lettera a Vinc. Capponi, Veglia sulle Belle Arti, Lezione accademica" were collected and appended to the second volume of his "Notizie", 1682.
'Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial'.
Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial is the title of a poem by Robert Browning from his 1876