by Jon Lackman | 22 April 2010 | Books
In the January 2010 Burlington Magazine, Erika Langmuir reviewed the new edition of Bernardo De Dominici’s 1742 Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti Napoletani edited by Fiorella Sricchia Santoro and Andrea Zezza:
This is a heroic editorial enterprise, that restores to Bernardo De Dominici’s ambitious oeuvre … the dignity it deserves without, however, minimising those aspects of invention and forgery that made the author a butt of scholarly reprobation in his own lifetime, and the publication a commercial failure … [It] provides a trustworthy guide to a fascinating document at a significant moment of eighteenth-century European culture.
