Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's Trattato dell'Arte della Pittura : color, perspective and anatomy / by Barbara Tramelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tramelli, Barbara, author.

Series:

Nuncius Series : studies and sources in the material and visual history of science ; volume 1.

Nuncius Series : studies and sources in the material and visual history of science ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600--Knowledge and learning.

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo.

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600. Trattato dell'arte de la pittura.

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600.

Communication in science--Italy--Milan--History--16th century.

Communication in science.

Communication in art--Italy--Milan--History--16th century.

Communication in art.

History.

Milan (Italy)--Intellectual life--16th century.

Milan (Italy).

Trattato dell'arte de la pittura (Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo).

Intellectual life.

Learning and scholarship.

Italy--Milan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

Barbara Tramelli's Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's Trattato dell'Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy investigates the context in which the writings of the painter Giovanni Lomazzo were produced, the types of theoretical and practical knowledge which they conveyed to artists and how painters in the second half of the sixteenth century shared this knowledge among themselves. In his books, Lomazzo drew on earlier and contemporary art literature, his own expertise as a painter, works of natural philosophy and his personal exchanges with contemporary artists, astrologers and 'scientists'. Lomazzo and his work are placed in the context of the city where he operated and published, paying particular attention to the role of Milanese institutions as 'spaces of interactions' with colleagues and men of letters in which the material for his books was discussed and collected. Tramelli highlights three main areas of Lomazzo's studies: color, perspective and anatomy, linking his theoretical discourse to what was known and discussed about these topics in Milan at the end of the sixteenth century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Lomazzo and Milan

Color, Perspective and Anatomy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tramelli, Barbara. Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's Trattato dell'arte della pittura.

ISBN:

9789004330252

9004330259

OCLC:

956502014