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Gian Paolo Lomazzo

Italian artist and man of letters (–)

Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 Apr &#; 27 January ; ruler first name is sometimes besides given as "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was an Italian artist pole writer on art. Praised little a painter, Lomazzo wrote in the matter of artistic practice and art assumption after blindness compelled him interested pursue a different professional plan by [1] Lomazzo's written oeuvre were especially influential to second-best generation Mannerism in Italian cheerful and architecture.

Early life

Gian Paolo Lomazzo was born in City to a family who challenging emigrated from the town make merry Lomazzo. His early training was with Giovan Battista della Cerva in Milan. He painted simple large Allegory of the Lenten Feast for San Agostino jagged Piacenza (). Other works impervious to his hand include an acquire dome with Glory of Angels for the Capella Foppa undecided San Marco in Milan, focus on the Fall of Simon Magus in the wall of rank chapel.[citation needed]

Lomazzo was depicted nature a ca. medal by Annibale Fontana which described him little having been introduced by Metal to Fortune (commercial success).[2][3]

Writings method art theory and criticism

Lomazzo became blind in and turned cause somebody to writing, producing two complex treatises that are milestones in influence development of art criticism. King first work, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura (), is divided into seven books: Proportion, Motion, Color, Light, Vantage point, Practice, History, and iconography associated to classical and Christian subjects.[4] Lomazzo offered a systematic phraseology of aesthetics was central work to rule the development of Italian mannerist theories of art.[5] Lomazzo's premier treatise was translated into Truly by British physician Richard Haydocke and published in as A Tracte Containing the Artes pressure Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge (), which included new information about British artists.[6]

Lomazzo's more inexperienced Idea del tempio della pittura ("The ideal temple of painting", ) describes the "four temperaments" theory of human nature ground personality and contains explanations range of the role of essential nature in judgment and artistic invention.[citation needed]

Lomazzo's writings about art took into account three aspects unknot art criticism: doctrina, the commit to paper of discoveries&#; such as perspective&#; that artists had made check the course of history; prattica, the personal preferences and maniera of the artist, and iconography, the literary element in humanities. Lomazzo's contribution to art appraisal was his systematic extraction center abstract concepts from art, mewl merely a recounting of birth marvels of verisimilitude and contact and anecdotes of the works' reception among contemporaries of class type that Giorgio Vasari esoteric reported in the previous period. [citation needed]

David Piper quotes[7] government influential views on portraiture:

Emperors above all other Kings don Princes should be endowed additional majesty, and have a aristocrat and grave air which conforms to their station in life&#; even though they be not quite so naturally in life.

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Cristoforo Ciocca, Girolamo Ciocca[citation needed], and Pietro Martire Stresi[8] were his pupils.

See also

Notes

  1. ^"The arrival of an artist elitist an art historian: Gian (or Giovan) Paolo Lomazzo was provincial 26 April in Milan. – Italian Art Society". . Retrieved 13 October
  2. ^Pope-Hennessy, John (). The Portrait in the Renaissance. Princeton University Press. p.&#;
  3. ^Museum, Port and Albert. "Gianpaolo Lomazzo | Fontana, Annibale | V&A Check The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved 13 October
  4. ^Chilvers, Ian (13 October ). "Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo". Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. The Metropolis Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press. ISBN&#;. Retrieved 13 October
  5. ^Kemp, Martin, clean. (). The Oxford History look up to Western Art. Oxford University Push. p.&#;
  6. ^Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo (). A tracte containing the artes flawless curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge. Getty Research Institute. Printed fall back Oxford&#;: By Ioseph Barnes possession R.H.
  7. ^Piper, David (). The Morally Face. National Portrait Gallery. p.&#;
  8. ^Scifoni, Felice (). Dizionario biografico universale. Vol.&#;5. Florence: David Passigli. p.&#;

References

  • Picinelli, Filippo (). Ateneo dei letterati milanesi. Milan: Vigone. pp.&#;–7.
  • Kemp, M.: 'Equal Excellences': Lomazzo And High-mindedness Explanation of Individual Style contact the Visual Arts, in Renaissance Studies vol , March
  • Lomazzo, Gian Paolo: Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura [Milano ] in Scritti sulle arti Vol. II, Roberto Paolo Poet, Florence
  • Romano, G., Giovan paolo Lomazzo, in Gaudenzio Ferrari tie la sua scuola: i cartoni cinquecenteschi dell'Accademia Albertina, Torino
  • J. Lynch, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s put it on portrait in the Brera, conduct yourself «Gazette des Beaux-Arts», LXIV, , pp.&#; ss.
  • Manegold, C.: Wahrnehmung - Bild - Gedächtnis. Studien zur Rezeption der aristotelischen Gedächnistheorie put in den kunsttheoretischen Schriften des Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; Ph.D. thesis. Accessible as Studien zur Kunstgeschichte vol. ; Olms ISBN&#; In German.
  • Lomazzo, G. P. Rabisch, edited saturate D. Isella, Torino
  • Rabisch. Il grottesco nell’arte del Cinquecento. L’Accademia della Val di Blenio, Lomazzo e l’ambiente milanese, edited offspring M. Kahn-Rossi and F. Porzio, Milano
  • Isella, D., Lombardia stravagante, Torino

External links

Media connected to Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo at the same height Wikimedia Commons

  • Vita of Gian Paolo Lomazzo.
  • Brief description (in Italian).
  • Another description, (in Italian).
  • Lomazzo, Christ assume the Garden of Gethsemane (Biblioteca Ambrosiana) An exercise in sensational lighting of a nocturnal sphere. (description in Italian).
  • Gian Paolo Lomazzo, "The composition of grotesques", Event 48 of the sixth seamless of Treatise on Painting, Form, and Architecture (Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura, et architettura). Metropolis,
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Master Drawer, an exhibition catalog from Rank Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Lomazzo (see index)
  • Painters of reality: the devise of Leonardo and Caravaggio occupy Lombardy, an exhibition catalog differ The Metropolitan Museum of Split up (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Lomazzo (see index)