Carlo Ridolfi
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Carlo Ridolfi (1594–1658) was an Italian art biographer and painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
Ridolfi was born in Lonigo near Vicenza.
He was a pupil of the painter
Ridolfi wrote a biography of the Venetian painters in 1648 titled Le maraviglie dell'Arte ovvero, Le vite degli Illustri Pittori Veneti e dello Stato. He also wrote La vita di Giacopo Robusti (a biography of
As
One purpose of his work was to supply a corrective to Vasari, and just as Vasari ascribes all progress in art to Florentines, Ridolfi attempts something similar for the Venetian tradition, with its closer connection to Byzantine art. He was well educated in the classics, and his style is much given to rhetorical flourishes, classical comparisons and references to poetry, whilst rather lacking Vasari's talent for telling anecdote. He approached the larger lives in a scholarly fashion, and quoted many documents, often now vanished, that remain invaluable to
He died at Venice in 1658.
Works
- Le maraviglie dell'arte: ovvero Le vite degli illustri pittori Veneti e dello Stato ..., Volume 1, By Carlo Ridolfi, Giuseppe Vedova, Second edition with corrections, Tipografia Cartellier, Padua, 1835. 1648 Edition.
- Vita di Giacopo Robusti (Tintoretto), 1642 (no preview).
References
- ^ Michael Hirst in Jane Martineau (ed), The Genius of Venice, 1500-1600, p. 210, 1983, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
- ISBN 0-271-01627-2- also Translators Note
Sources
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. pp. 146–7.
- Land, Norman E. (2004). "Poetry and anecdote in Carlo Ridolfi's Life of Titian". In Patricia Meilman (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Titian. Cambridge UP. pp. 205–224.
External links
- Polati, Andrea (2016). "RIDOLFI, Carlo". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- portrait and notes from the Metropolitan