Passeri, Giovanni Battista

Date born:  ca. 1610

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Date died:  1679

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Vasari emulator; lively, anecdotal biographies of artists. Some of his material was borrowed from the  Le vite de' pittori, scultori & architetti, 1642, of Giovanni Baglione (q.v.).

Passeri's work was edited and published by Jacob Hess (q.v.) in the 1920s and 1930s..

Home Country:  Italy

Sources:  Bazin 54

Bibliography:  Vite de' Pittori, Scultori, e architetti. 1678