Giovanni Baglione
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Famous as the author of Le vite de 'piaori, scultori et architetti Art Work
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Giovanni Baglione |
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Rome, Italy |
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1573 |
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1643 |
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Famous as the author of Le vite de 'piaori, scultori et architetti |
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Biography
| Famous as the author of Le vite de 'piaori, scultori et architetti (Rome, 1642), Baglione is notorious for twice suing Caravaggio for libel, once in 1603 and again in 1606. Despite his public disclaimers, Baglione was one of the earliest and closest emulators of Caravaggio for a brief period. He enjoyed a successful career as a painter, earning a knighthood and presidency of the Roman Accademia di San Luca. Baglione's birthdate is a matter of speculation. Most sources accept a date around 1573, while some scholars have suggested that he was born as early as 1566. He began his career working in the late mannerist style exemplified by Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari), Cristoforo Roncalli, and Cesare Nebbia. His early commissions from Sixtus V and Clement VIII involved decorative cycles at the Vatican and the Lateran. Although Baglione's overt Caravaggesque phase ends around late 1604, echoes of Caravaggio remain in Baglione's paintings throughout his career. His later style, however, also reflects the impact of Guido Reni.* Regularly in demand for altarpieces, Baglione enjoyed prestigious commissions including a Resurrection of Tabitha for St. Peter's in 1607, and frescoes celebrating the virtues of the Virgin in the Capella Paolina in Santa Maria Maggiore (1611-12). Between 1620 and 1622 he was in the service of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga; his chief surviving commission is the cycle of Apollo and the Muses (Arras, Musee des Beaux-Arts). Immensely successful (he was knighted and elected Principe of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome), Baglione spent much of his later life writing. Later works include his frescoes forS. Maria dell' Orto around 1641. Besides his biography of artists, he wrote a guidebook to the New Churches of Rome, published in 1639, and an autobiography. |
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