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

• Author: Tramelli, Barbara.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nuncius Series 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages) :; color illustrations.

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.

Table of 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.