Giovanni pietro bellori biography of albert

Bellori was born in Rome in 1613, the son of a poor farmer, but was brought up in the household of Francesco Angeloni, a well-to-do writer, collector, and antiquarian. It was Angeloni who established the intellectual climate in which Bellori's interests developed. Angeloni assembled, probably with Bellori's help, what was then one of the finest private collections of classical antiquities, important enough to be noted in contemporary guidebooks. In the field of modern art his preference was for the classicists, above all Annibale Car

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