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| Ottavio Leoni Portrait of Giovanni Baglione 1625 etching, engraving Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Nobody seems to like Giovanni Baglione (1566-1643) very much, but he will always come in for an heroic share of posterity's attention because of the company he kept. He made the drawing immediately below as preparation for a painting installed at the Church of the Gesù in Rome. It was unveiled in 1603 and quickly became the object of malicious verses circulated by the artist Caravaggio and certain friends. Baglione sued them in a Roman court for slander, but the picture was nevertheless removed from the church in 1622 and has since disappeared. In 1642, shortly before Baglionie's death, he published his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects – an imitation and updating of Vasari's famous book issued 75 years earlier. It contained one of the first and fullest biographies of Caravaggio, but written in a vengeful tone of venom. A generation later, in 1672, Giovan Pietro Bellori published his own collection of artist biographies, covering much the same ground as Baglione, but correcting many of his biases and errors.
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| Giovanni Baglione Resurrection of Christ ca. 1601 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Group of nude male figures standing and kneeling in supplication ca. 1598 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Baglione Two figures handling vessels on a tabletop ca. 1600 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Woman reclining on a bed 1620s drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Giovanni Baglione Nude model with large jar ca. 1600 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Scene of martyrdom ca. 1600 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giovanni Baglione Seated woman gazing upward before 1644 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giovanni Baglione Emperor Leo killed in his mother's presence for persecuting image-worshipers ca. 1610-12 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Return of the Holy Family from Egypt 1599-1600 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Baglione St James the Greater routing the Moors at the Battle of Clavijo ca. 1622 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Design for figurative border-frame around The Lamentation by Palma il Giovane before 1628 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Two groups of Saints on clouds, after Correggio ca. 1600 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Studies for The Flagellation before 1643 drawings (assembled by Pierre-Jean Mariette) British Museum |
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| Giovanni Baglione Ceiling design - Assumption of the Virgin before 1644 drawing (in Mariette mount) Morgan Library, New York |