Philippe Baldinucci or Filippo Baldinucci (born in 1624 with Florence - died in 1696 or 1697) is a historian of art and an Italian biographer of the 17th century considered as one of most significant on the artists and arts of the period Baroque.

does there Exist a rule making it possible to affirm with certainty that a beautiful painting is hand of such or such Master? And if there is not, which will be the surest way to found its judgment rather well? |Letter of 1685 with Vincenzo Capponi

Biography

Born in an big family from Florence, it receives an education among Jesuits with an aim of continuing a religious career but it gives up these studies to become librarian in 1664 at Médicis near the cardinal Léopold de Médicis, the brother of Ferdinand II of Médicis, the large-duke of Tuscany, disciple and patron of arts which it advises for the purchases of works of Article After the death of the cardinal, it becomes preserving large-ducal collections.

Good draftsman, it copies religious paintings and often carries out the portraits of his close relations but its true vocation is to become writer and it aspires to becoming new the Vasari while replacing and by increasing its biographies of the artists, to which it adds the lives of the French and Flemish artists omitted by Vasari. Its more important work is the Notizie de' professori LED disegno da Cimabue in qua published in 1681 and continued after its death.

Baldinucci is made a name like one of the principal experts of Italy and collects itself of works. It Re-catalogs the collections of Médicis, increases them drawings and paintings, uses novel methods of organization with an aim of making, of those, the most modern collections of its time, with for base, the funds of the Offices of Florence.

Its work meticulous person is based on the capacity to distinguish between the hands from the various painters - including new and unknown ones - who opened the field of the knowledge of attributions of Italian works, generally not signed. In its Vocabolario , the first dictionary of the artistic terms, Baldinucci provides fourteen definitions of styles using eighty different terms, by applying some to “bad” Article.

It is with this attitude that it builds its Notizie in which it consciously intends to exceed Quickly the of Giorgio Vasari. Baldinucci is the first historian of art which traces the biographies and the work of the artists beyond only one area (Vasari listed only the artists Tuscan) towards all Italy. He narrowly studies due stylistics of the large Masters the ones towards the others, by his meticulous person summons documentations and files, centuries before the real development of the Histoire of art.

In its Vocabolario (1681), it presents the terms of the techniques of arts for painting, but also for the sculpture, the pigments of the colors and the tools.

Its biography was written by one of its three sons and its notes are preserved at the central National library of Florence (ms Fondo Nazionale II.II.110).

Its collection of a thousand of drawings passed to the Strozzi family and entered to the Musée of Louvre, in 1806, following a purchase. A rich collection of works of the 16th Florentin century: Bronzino, Pocetti, Buontalenti and Cigoli, several sheets of Signorelli, Lorenzo di Credi, Worship of the shepherds of Pesellino, Presentation with the Temple of Taddeo Gaddi, the studies for the composition of Santa Croce (only preparatory drawing for a fresco of the 14th century).

Works

• Comminciamento E progresso dell' arte dell' intagliare in oar sticks quickly di molti de' più eccellenti maestri beyond stessa professione… Florence (1667) and several editions. Baldinucci by engraving the frontispiece. (which includes/understands the first mentions in Italy of paintings of Rembrandt).
• Vocabolario Toscano dell' Arte del Disegno, nel quale if explicano I propri termini E voci, not solo della Pittura, Scultura, & Architettura; my di altre Arti will ancora has which subordinate, E che abbiano per fondamento it Disegno . Florence (1681) reprinted in 1976.
• Notizie de' professori LED disegno da Cimabue in qua, 6 flights, (Florence 1681-1728), published partly posthumous, then an edition increased in 6 volumes by A. Matteoli (1725-30) reprinted in Rome in 1975.
• a History of engraving (1686)
• Many biographies of artists:
• Vita LED cav. Gio. Lorenzo Bernino, Lettera has Vinc. Beautiful Capponi, Veglia sulle Arti, Lezione accademica additive with volume two of its Notizie (1682) financed by the queen Christine of Sweden two years after the death of the artist.

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