Giovanni Pietro Bellori, also known as Giovan Pietro Bellori or Gian Pietro Bellori, was an Italian art theorist, painter and antiquarian, who is best known for his work Lives of the Artists, considered the seventeenth-century equivalent to Vasari's Vite. His Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti Moderni, published in 1672, was influential in consolidating and promoting the theoretical case for classical idealism in art. As an art historical biographer, he favoured classicising artists rather than Baroque artists to the extent of omitting some of the key artistic figures of 17th-century art altogether.
Gian Pietro Bellori, portrait by Carlo Maratta
Columna Cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata, Rome 1704.
Domenico Zampieri, known by the diminutive Domenichino after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.
Domenichino, in a portrait by an unknown artist
The Way to Calvary, Getty Center, c. 1610
The Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1607–1610, oil on canvas, 143 x 115 cm, National Gallery of Scotland
Domenichino – Landscape with Tobias, c. 1610–1613