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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tramelli, Barbara.

Series:

Nuncius Series 1.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Communication in science.

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

Communication in art.

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

Milan (Italy).

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

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Aims, Sources and Methodology

1 The Artist and the Traveller

2 Spaces and Institutions

3 Art and Grotesque

The Treatise: A Short Introduction

4 Lomazzo’s Colors

5 Acutissima è La Prospettiva

6 The Study of the Body

General Conclusions

Appendix 1 Contract between Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo and Giulio Claro, Reggente in Milan, dated 1561

Appendix 2 L’interogaçiglion ch’o s’han da fa dar gran Scanscieré pos ra gneregada a col ch’o vùr intrò in dra Vall de Bregn

Appendix 3 Difinicione della tavola sopra detta

Appendix 4 Straducc dra vall de Bregn

Appendix 5 Inventory 24th January 1604, doc. B, notary Benedetto Coerezio, f. 20578

Appendix 6 Inventory, 11th November 1611, Fondo Litta, carte 32

Appendix 7 Libro III Del Colore (1584)

Appendix 8 a. Paduan Manuscript (Merrifield, pp. 648–717), Ricette per fare ogni sorte di colori (Chap. I– De colori in generale, e di quali materie si componghino) b. Lomazzo, IV chapter of III book of the Trattato, Quali siano le materie nelle quali si trovino i colori

Bibliography

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

90-04-33026-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004330269 DOI