Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (13 September 1564 – 27 December 1637) was an aristocratic Italian banker, art collector and intellectual of the late 16th ...
Continue Reading →This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by ...
Continue Reading →The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
Continue Reading →At the close of the 16th century, Europe’s most talented painters flocked to Rome, the Eternal City, to execute commissions for popes, princes, ...
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