Filippo Baldinucci

Filippo Baldinucci (* June 3, 1625 in Florence, † January 10, 1696 ) was an Italian painter, art theorist and biographer, primarily of Italian artists. His main work set the Notizie de ' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua represents that appeared 1681-1728 in print. He is also the author of the Vocabolario Toscano dell'Arte del disegno, a lexical overview of the vocabulary of the artist, the Baldinucci Accademia della Crusca on behalf of the published in 1681.

Life

Filippo Baldinucci comes from an old Florentine family, his parents were the businessman Giovanni Baldinucci and Caterina da Valle. An artistic training was the young Filippo first in the workshop of the sculptor Jacopo Maria Foggini and painter Matteo Rosselli. Besides his work as a portraitist, he quickly gained a reputation as an exceptional connoisseur and was employed in that capacity by Grand Duke Ferdinando II de ' Medici and commissioned, among others, with longer missions to Mantua and in other places of Lombardy. Cardinal Leopoldo de ' Medici sat Baldinucci one to order and expand its collection of drawings, which forms the basis of the later Gabinetto stamper e disegni the Uffizi Gallery. Even the famous collection of the artist self-portraits this gallery goes back to Baldinuccis activity.

Parallel to his work as an art agent and manager Medicean art collections Filippo Baldinucci began with a kunsthistoriographischen demolition of artists since Cimabue, the Notizie de ' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua representing the first large-scale project of its kind since the Florentine Giorgio Vasari. The writing is also a response to numerous similar work to local arts stories that had been taken in other Italian cities, among others, by Giulio Mancini, Giovanni Baglione, Carlo Cesare Malvasia or Raffaele Soprani in attack. Of the six volumes of the Notizie but appeared only three lifetime of the author.

1685 Baldinucci Caterina Scalari had married, by whom he had five sons. The third-born Francesco Saverio Baldinucci assisted his father at work at the Notizie and led the project continued after his death in 1696. Another son is born in 1665 and 1893 Beatified Jesuit Antonio Baldinucci.

Securities (in selection)

• Vocabolario Toscano dell'Arte del Disegno. Florence 1681st
• Notizie de ' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua. 6 volumes, 1681-1728 Florence ( Florence 1767-1774 Advanced revisions among others; Florence 1845-1847 ).
• La Veglia. Dialogo di cui si Sincero Veri in disputano e si sciolgono varie difficoltà pittoriche. Lucca 1684th
• Cominciamento e progresso dell'arte dell'intagliare in rame colle di vite molti de ' più eccellenti maestri della stessa professione. Florence 1686th