Roger de Piles' artists from Lombardy

Roger de Piles's L'Abrégé de la vie des peintres...avec un traité du peintre parfait ( The Art of Painting and the Lives of the Painters), was a major art biography of painters. It was written by the French spy

Part 5, Painters from Lombardy, includes in order of appearance in the text, the following list of artists:

• Antonio da Correggio (1489-1534), p 287
• Agostino Carracci (1557-1602), p 290
• Lodovico Carracci
  (1555-1619), p 290
• Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), p 290
• Guido Reni (1575-1642), p 305
• Domenichino (1581-1641), p 312
• Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647), p 316
• Francesco Albani (1578-1660), p 321
• Guercino (1591-1666), p 324
• Caravaggio (1571-1610), p 328
• Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582-1622), p 332
• Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), p 333

External links

• Online version (French) of 1715 version Abregé de la Vie des peintres By Roger de Piles on Google Books
• Online version (Dutch) of 1725 version translated by Johannes Verhoek Beknopt verhaal van het Leven der Vermaardste Schilders By Roger de Piles at the University of Utrecht