Art Historiography and Artist's Biography in the Seventeenth Century. Giovanni Pietro Bellori's Vite in their Context

在他1672年出版的《十七世纪画家、雕塑家和建筑师的简历》中，乔瓦尼·皮埃特罗·贝洛里将调解信息和唤起人物生动形象的传统传记功能与对艺术史的兴趣结合在一起。不可避免的是，他与乔治·瓦萨里的目的性建构的历史叙事进行了斗争，并部分地拒绝了这种叙事。瓦萨里通过按时间顺序安排生活，并以价值范畴加强，重建了“艺术”的历史。通过他的VITE，贝洛里含蓄地和明确地为艺术发展的描述性制定了一个更开放的模型。在过去的八年里，位于美因茨的贝洛里VITE的德国编辑小组的工作建立在许多关于1640年至1672年的文本结构及其起源的新的、更新的看法上，以及参照贝洛里的艺术理论前提。在仔细阅读VITE、附带的框架文本和贝洛里的进一步著作的过程中，该项目调查了这位意大利作家在通过瓦萨里之后的艺术家传记撰写艺术史的任务方面的智力地位。在此基础上，该小组将VITE置于其自17世纪40年代以来的不同概念阶段，涉及当前的艺术家传记模式，以及一般的知识分类和表现模式，以及17世纪史学，鉴于知识的巨大扩张，VITE在创造新的表现形式的同时，重新评估了其科学写作的前提。佛罗伦萨菲利波·巴尔迪努奇(1624-1679)的遗体将构成调查的另一个焦点。

In his Vite of seventeenth-century painters, sculptors and architects, published in 1672, Giovanni Pietro Bellori combined the traditional biographical functions of mediating information and evoking a lively image of the personalities characterized, with an interest in art historiography. Inevitably, he grappled with and partially rejected Giorgio Vasari's teleologically constructed historical narrative which by means of chronologically arranged Lives, reinforced by value categories, reconstructs "the" history of "the art". With his Vite, Bellori formulates implicitly and explicitly a more open model for the descriptiveness of the development of the arts. Over the last eight years, the German group of editors of Bellori's Vite, situated in Mainz, has based its work on numerous new, more recent perceptions with regard to textual structure and its genesis from 1640 to 1672, as well as in reference to Bellori's art theoretical premises. In a close reading of the Vite, the accompanying framework texts and further writings by Bellori, the project investigates the Italian author's intellectual position in reference to the task of writing art history by means of artists' biographies after Vasari. On this basis, the group places the Vite in its different stages of conception since the 1640s in relation to current models of artists' biographies and generally to models of knowledge classification and representation as well as seventeenth-century historiography, which in view of the immense expansion of knowledge reassessed its premises for scientific writing while creating new forms of representation. The Vite of the Florentine Filippo Baldinucci (1624-1679) will constitute another focal point of the investigation.