Giampietro Zanotti
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Giampietro Zanotti was an Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.
Portrait of Giampietro Zanotti
Carlo Cesare Malvasia
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Carlo Cesare Malvasia was an Italian scholar and art historian from Bologna, best known for his biographies of Baroque artists titled Felsina pittrice, published in 1678. Together with his contemporar
Giampietro Zanotti
…and ‘weakness’ in painting. By that date he had already published a number of works, including a biography (1703) of Pasinelli, a defence (1705) of Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina pittrice (1678), which championed the late Baroque Bolognese tradition, and a revised edition (1706) of Malvasia’s guidebook Le pitture di…
Malvasia's biography of the Carracci in the Felsina pittrice of 1678. This particular copy belonged to Antonio Canova