Giovan Pietro Bellori

Giovan Pietro Bellori

Giovanni Pietro Bellori (born in Rome in 1613 and died in the same city in 1696) was an Italian writer and artistic critic. Also known as Gian Pietro Bellori or Giovan Pietro Bellori was one of the most important biographers of the Italian Baroque artists in the seventeenth century. Art historian was considered by many to be the baroque epoch of Giorgio Vasari.