Carlo Barbieri Artist

Carlo Barbieri. Seconda Edizione, Etc. [Reproductions. Edited, with an Introduction, by Giovanni Scheiwiller. With a Portrait.].

• Author(s): Carlo BARBIERI (Artist.), Vanni Scheiwiller

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1946
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Francesco e Carlo Barbieri

• Author(s): A. Cassiano, M. Brizia, M. Afferri

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2004
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Carlo Barbieri, 1910-1938

• Author(s): Carlo Barbieri

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1977
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Carlo Barbieri

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1981
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Life of Guido Reni

• Author(s): conte Carlo Cesare Malvasia

• Categories: Art

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1980
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• Publisher: Penn State University Press

The main source of what we know about Guido Reni is The Life of Guido Reni by Malvasia. It lets us see a major artist of the Italian Baroque through the eyes of his own age. The text contains considerable detail on what Guido painted, as well as his commissions and patrons. As Reni's close friend, Malvasia took much of his material from first-hand knowledge; documentary evidence from the artist's recently discovered account book attests to the reliability of his biographer's text. But Malvasia's biography is far more than a chronicle of facts about Reni's art. Through a wealth of illustrative incidents based on eyewitness accounts we come to know Reni as an individual, driven by compulsions,...