Filippo Baldinucci titlepage Notizie 1681

Filippo Baldinucci Filippo Baldinucci (3 June 1625 – 10 January 1696) 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. ...

's ''Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali'' (or ''Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610–1670'') was a major art biography of

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painters. The work covered 6 volumes, published between 1681 and 1728.

Written by the erudite Florentine professor of the ''

Accademia della Crusca The (; ), generally abbreviated as La Crusca, is a Florence-based society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology. It is one of the most important research institutions of the Italian language, as well as the oldest Academy#Linguisti ...

'', the work is often verbose and rife with factual errors; however, it is a broad compendium of stories about generally contemporaneous

painters. Dozens of Flemish and Dutch painters, including

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...

, were judged to merit inclusion. Though Baldinucci may have met some of these Northern painters on their travels to Italy, the majority of the Dutch and Flemish names he included had biographical notes under portraits engraved by

Jan Meyssens Joannes (Johannes, Jan, or Jean) Meyssens (17 May 1612 – 18 September 1670) was a Flemish people, Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and print publisher. Life He was born in Brussels, but moved to Antwerp at an early age, where he became m ...

, whose work was popular, and whose engravings were reused by

Cornelis de Bie Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish '' rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish ...

for his 1682 book ''

Het Gulden Cabinet or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie. It was published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist ...

''. Baldinucci included both De Bie (in his father "Adriano de Bie"'s entry) and Meyssens in his book. The posthumous edition (1681) includes (in order of appearance in the text) and expanding list of artists:

Decennale II

* Giovanni da S. Giovanni; p. 1 * Gio: Lorenzo Bernini; p. 54 * Giovanni Bilivert; p. 68 * Fra Arsenio Mascagni ( Donato Mascagni); p. 79 * Agostino Bugiardini; p. 83 *

Astolfo Petrazzi Astolfo Petrazzi (1583–1665) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his hometown of Siena, but also Spoleto and Rome. He was a pupil of mainly Francesco Vanni, but also worked under Ventura Salimbeni and Pietro Sorri. B ...

; p. 85 *Astasio Fontebuoni (

Anastasio Fontebuoni Anastasio Fontebuoni (also spelt Anastazio Fontebuoni, or Anastagio Fontebuoni) (1571–1626) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, native of Florence. Fontebuoni proved to be one of the Florentine painters are more open to the influence of Carava ...

); p. 86 *

Rutilio Manetti Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti (c. 1571 – 22 July 1639) was an Italian painter of late-Mannerism or proto-Baroque, active mainly in Siena. Biography He was influenced and/or taught by the local artists Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni. He is ...

; p. 92 *

Gherardo Silvani Gherardo Silvani (14 December 1579 – 23 November 1675) was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period. Biography His son Pierfrancesco also became an architect. He worked ...

; p. 93 * Jacopo Callot; p. 109 *:Artists from the low countries *: Francesco Snyders (Frans Snyders); p. 120 *: Guglielmo de Nicolant (Willem van Nieulandt II); p. 120 *: Adamo Willaerts; p. 120 *:Gasparo Cleayer ( Caspar de Crayer); p. 120 *:Rolando Saveri (

Roelant Savery Roelant Savery (or ''Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij'', or ''de Savery'', or many variants; 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter. Life Savery was born in Kortrijk. Like so many other artists, he belonged ...

); p. 121 *:Enrico Van der Borcht ( Hendrik van der Borcht the elder); p. 121 * Jacopo Ernesto Thoman de Hagelstein; p. 121 *

Giovanni Stefano Marucelli Giovanni Stefano Marucelli (1586 – c. 1646) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period, active in Tuscany, including Florence and Pisa. His name is also written as Maruscelli, Maruscielli, or Marscelli. Born in Florence, arou ...

; p. 122 *

Giovanni Coccapani Giovanni Coccapani (1582 – 1649) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period. Born in Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, w ...

; p. 123 *

Sigismondo Coccapani Sigismondo Coccapani (1585 - 1643) was an Italian people, Italian painter of the Baroque art, Baroque period. Born in Florence, he studied under Ludovico Cigoli in Rome, before returning to his native city. Life Coccapani was born at Florence in ...

; p. 132 * Chiarisimo d'Antonio Fancelli; p. 136 * Orazio Mochi; p. 137 * Raffaello Curradi; p. 138 *

Ottavio Vannini Ottavio Vannini (September 15, 1585 – c. 1643) was an Italian artist of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. Biography Born in Florence to Michele Vannini. He initially apprenticed for four years with a mediocre painter by th ...

; p. 141 *

Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco (26 January 1582 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian Baroque painter. Biography Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the household of Coun ...

; p. 151 *:Artists from Genoa and its territories *: Sinibaldo Scorza; p. 154 *:

Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo (1584 – August 18, 1638) was an Italian painter active mainly in Genoa. Life Ansaldo was born in Voltri, now part of the ''comune'' of Genoa, the son of a merchant. He trained under Orazio Cambiasi and possibly collabor ...

; p. 156 *:

Bernardo Strozzi Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 – 2 August 1644), was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver. A canvas and fresco artist, his wide subject range included History painting, history, Allegory, allegorica ...

; p. 157 *: Giovanni Maria Bottala; p. 159 *: Luciano Di Silvestro Bolzone; p. 159 *:Giovambatista Capellino ( Giovanni Domenico Capellino?) p. 161

Decennale III

*:Fra

Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi (1582–1659) was a Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Tuscan painter of the Baroque period. He is also called the ''Eremita di Monte Senario''. He was born in , a ''frazione'' of Borgo San Lorenzo. He was a pupil of the painte ...

; p. 163 *Monsu Giusto Subtermans (

Justus Sustermans Justus Sustermans, Joost Sustermans or Suttermans, his given name Italianised to Giusto (28September 159723April 1681), was a Flemish people, Flemish painter and draughtsman who is mainly known for his portraits. He also painted history and ge ...

); p. 167 *

Michelangelo Cerquozzi Michelangelo Cerquozzi, known as Michelangelo delle Battaglie (18 February 1602 – 6 April 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter known for his genre scenes, battle pictures, small religious and mythological works and still lifes. His genre s ...

; p. 189 *:Artists from Low Countries *: Adriano van Utrecht (Adriaen); p. 197 *:Giovanni Guglielmo Bawr, (

Johann Wilhelm Baur Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer (Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 - Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. Biography Accor ...

, Strasbourg) ; p. 197 *:Niccola Canupfer, (

Nikolaus Knüpfer Nikolaus Knüpfer (1609 – 15 October 1655) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Knüpfer was trained in Leipzig, where according to Houbraken he was apprenticed to Emanuel Nysen. He then moved to Magdeburg where he found work making b ...

) ; p. 197 *:Jacopo di Giordano or Giacomo Giordans (

Jacob Jordaens Jacques (Jacob) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678Jacques Jordaens
in the Netherlands Institute for Ar ...

) ; p. 197 *:Baldasarr Gerbier, (

Balthazar Gerbier Sir Balthazar Gerbier (23 February 1592, in N.S. – 1663) was an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer, in his own words fluent in "several languages" with "a good hand in writing, skill in sciences ...

) ; p. 197 *: Lionardo Bramer (

Leonaert Bramer Leonaert Bramer, also Leendert or Leonard (24 December 1596 – before 10 February 1674 (date of burial)),Leonaert Bramer< ...

) ; p. 197 *:Adriano de Bie (

Adriaan de Bie Adriaen de Bie (3 October 1593 – 20 October 1668) was a Flemish painter, who is known for portraits, biblical scenes for churches and Italianate landscapes. In his youth he travelled to Paris and resided for a long period in Italy. He train ...

, father of

); p. 198 *:Adriano Vander Venne, (

Adriaen van de Venne Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 – 12 November 1662), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and versifier. Bio ...

) ; p. 198 *:Gheraldo Honthorst (

Gerard van Honthorst Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch: ''Gerrit van Honthorst''; 4 November 1592 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painting, Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the nickn ...

) ; p. 198 *:Pietro Snayers (

Peter Snayers Peter Snayers or Pieter Snayers (1592–1667) was a Flemish painter known for his panoramic battle scenes, depictions of cavalry skirmishes, attacks on villages, coaches and convoys and hunting scenes. (p. 241-243, v.1; plate 92, v.2)Hans V ...

) ; p. 198 *: Jacopo Vrancqaert ; p. 198 *

Francesco Lauri Francesco Lauri (1610–1635) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome, but also throughout other parts of eastern and northern Italy and some of France, Spain and Greece. Biography He was the oldest son of the Flemish ...

; p. 199 *

Francesco Rustici Francesco Rustici, called Il Rustichino (Siena, 1592 – Siena, 1626) was an Italian painter active in Siena. He worked on commissions for the local churches as well as from the Grand-Dukes of Tuscany. In his work he shows a preference for noc ...

; p. 200 * Snyders D'Anversa, (

Frans Snyders Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders (11November 157919August 1657) was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes, and still lifes. A versatile artist, his works depict all sorts of foods, utensils, and tableware and wide assortment ...

); p. 201 *Giovambatista Vanni; ( Giovanni Battista Vanni); p. 201 *

Cesare Dandini Cesare Dandini (1 October 1596– 7 February 1657) was an Italian Baroque painter, active mainly in his native city of Florence. Biography He was the older brother of the painter Vincenzo Dandini (1609–1675). His nephew, Pietro Dandini, P ...

; p. 210 *

Felice Ficherelli Felice Ficherelli (30 August 1605, San Gimignano – 5 March 1660, Florence) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Tuscany. He was nicknamed "Felice Riposo" (Happy I Rest) for his calm and quiet demeanour. Biography ...

; p. 219 * Filippo Uffembach ; p. 226 *

Orazio Riminaldi ''Selfportrait'', Uffizi Orazio Riminaldi (5 September 1593 – 19 December 1630) was an Italian painter who painted mainly history subjects in a Caravaggist style. Biography Riminaldi was born and died in Pisa. He was in Pisa first a pupil of ...

; p. 227 *

Andrea Camassei Andrea Camassei (November 1602 – 1649) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver mainly active in Rome under the patronage of the Barberini. Biography He was born in Bevagna in Umbria to parents of modest means, Angelina d' Anton Maria Ang ...

; p. 228 * Mario Balassi; p. 233 * Cornelio Bloemaert; p. 238 *

Stefano della Bella Stefano della Bella (18 May 1610 – 12 July 1664) was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes. He left 1052 prints, and sev ...

; p. 242 * Giovanni Gonelli ; p. 253 *

Francesco Furini Francesco Furini (c. 1600 (or 1603) – August 19, 1646) was an Italian Baroque painter of Florence, noted for his sensual sfumato style in paintings of both secular and religious subjects. Biography He was born in Florence to an artistic fa ...

; p. 258 *

Girolamo Curti Girolamo Curti (1575–1632) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque, specializing in quadratura. Biography He was also called ''il Dentone''. He was born to a poor family at Bologna, and worked for cloth spinner till age 25. His first formal ...

; p. 267 *Cavaliere Gio. Francesco Barbieri, (

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous na ...

) * Angiol Michele Colonna ; p. 276 *Antonio Vandich (

Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of ...

) ; p. 279 *Francesco Diquesnoy ( Francesco Duquesnoy) ; p. 283 *

Agostino Metelli Agostino Mitelli (16 March 1609 – 2 August 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of quadratura or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks. He was born in Battedizzo, near Bologna, an ...

; p. 286 *:Artists from the city of Venice and its territories *:Cavaliere

Carlo Ridolfi Carlo Ridolfi (1594–1658) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period. Biography Ridolfi was born in Lonigo near Vicenza. He was a pupil of the painter Antonio Vassilacchi (Aliense). He painted a ''Visitation'' for the Og ...

; p. 289 *: Marc'Antonio Bassetti (Verona) ; p. 292 *:

Tommaso Sandrino Tomasso Sandrino (1575–1631) (also Sandrini) was an Italian painter of quadratura in Northern Italy, active in his native Brescia. Among the church ceilings he helped fresco with quadrature are Sant Faustino, San Domenico, Chiesa del Carmine, ...

(Brescia); p. 292 *:Piero Damini, (

Pietro Damini Saint Louis, sacred, bishop of Toulouse Sant'Alvise Pietro Damini (1592–1631) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Castelfranco Veneto Castelfranco Veneto () is a town and (municipality) of Veneto, northern ...

, Castelfranco); p. 293 *:

Filippo Zaniberti Filippo Zaniberti (1585–1636) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist period. Biography He was born in Brescia and active in Venice, where he became a pupil of Santo Peranda. Zaniberti's style recalls the richness of Paolo Veronese. He pai ...

(Brescia); p. 293 *: Matteo Ingoli (Ravenna) ; p. 294 *: Francesco Zugni, (

Francesco Zugno Francesco Zugno ( c. 1708–1787) was an Italians, Italian painter of the Rococo period who had a successful career in Venice. Life Francesco Zugno was born in Venice in 1709 and probably died there in 1787. The Zugno were an ancient Venetian f ...

, Brescia) ; p. 294 *: Giovambatista Brisone (Padua) ; p. 295 *:

Tiberio Tinelli '' Portrait of Luigi Moli'' Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. Tiberio Tinelli (1586 – 22 May 1639) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Venice. He trained with Giovanni Contarini, a pu ...

*Niccolo Possino (

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythologic ...

) ; p. 297 *:Artists from Genoa or Liguria *: Giovambatista Carlone ; p. 303 *:Giovacchino Axereto (

Gioacchino Assereto Gioacchino Assereto (1600 – 28 June 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period and one of the most prominent history painters active in Genoa in the first half of the 17th century. Life He initially apprenticed at age 12 with Lu ...

) ; p. 304

Decennale IV

*Angiol Maria Colomboni ( Angelo Maria Coloboni); p. 305 *

Cosimo Lotti Cosimo Lotti (1571–1643) was an Italian engineer, scenographer, and landscape designer. He worked around Florence until in his mid-fifties he moved to Madrid where he produced theatrical spectacles for the royal court. Lotti was born in Floren ...

; p. 306 *

Baccio del Bianco Luigi Baccio del Bianco or Baccio del Bianco (31 October 1604 – July 1657) was an Italian architect, engineer, scenic designer and painter. Biography He was born in Florence where his father, Cosimo del Bianco, sold cloth to the nobility fo ...

; p. 311 *

Alfonso Parigi Alfonso Parigi the Younger (1606–1656) was an Italian architect and scenographer, the son of Giulio Parigi, and grandson of Alfonso Parigi the Elder. He worked mainly in Florence, beginning at a very early age as his father's assistant. After ...

; p. 332 *

Alessandro Algardi Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals ...

; p. 235 *

Pellegrino Piola Pellegrino Piola (1617 – 25 November 1640), also called Pellegro Piola or il Pellegro, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Genoa. He was born in Genoa, and at the age of twelve, apprenticed with Domenico and Giovanni Bat ...

; p. 338 * Antonio Novelli; p. 339 * Claudio Gellee; p. 353 *

Pietro Ricchi Pietro Ricchi (1606 – 15 August 1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in Lucca. Life Pietro Ricchi, called ''il Lucchese'', trained from 1620 to 1623 with Domenico Crespi, called Passignano, in Florence and from 1624 to 1627 ...

; p. 360 * Pietro Paolino; p. 364 *Cav. Giovanni Miel (

Jan Miel Jan Miel (1599 in Beveren, Beveren-Waas – April 1664 in Turin) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Italy. He initially formed part of the circle of Dutch and Flemish genre painting, genre painters in R ...

); p. 366 *Cav. Francesco Borromino; p. 370

Decennale V

Baldassare Franceschini Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano after his birth place Volterra and, to distinguish him from Daniele da Volterra, Ricciarelli, Il Volterrano Giuniore (16116 January 1689) was an Italian late Baroque painter and draughtsman active p ...

; p. 381 *:Painters from the low countries *:Daniel Segiers (

Daniel Seghers Daniel Seghers (3December 15902November 1661) was a Flemish Jesuit brother and Flemish Baroque painter, painter who specialized in flower still lifes. He is particularly well known for his contributions to the genre of flower garland painting.I ...

; p. 415 *:Jacopo Van Es (

Jacob Foppens van Es Jacob Foppens van Es, Jacob Fopsen van Es or Jacob van Es (c. 1596 Antwerp – 1666 Antwerp) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish Baroque painter known for his still lifes mainly of food and occasionally flower paintings. He collaborated with ...

); p. 415 *:Pietro Van Lint ( Peter van Lint); p. 415 *: David Ryckaert (David Ryckaert II); p. 416 *:Gonsalo Coques (

Gonzales Coques Gonzales Coques (between 1614 and 1618 – 18 April 1684) was a Flemish painter of portraits and history paintings.Veronique van Passel, "Coques ocks; Cox Gonzales onsael; Gonsalo, ''Grove Art Online''. Oxford University Press, ccessed ...

); p. 416 *:Niccola de Helt Stocade (Nicolaes van Helt Stockade); p. 416 *:Giovambatista Van Deynum (Jan Baptist van Deynum">Nicolaes van Helt Stockade">ccessed ...

Contents

Decennale II

Decennale III

Decennale IV

Decennale V

Decennale VII and Part II

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