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Gian Paolo Lomazzo

Italian artist and writer (1538–1592)

Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 April 1538 – 27 January 1592; his first title is sometimes also given as "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was an Italian genius and writer on art. Praised primate a painter, Lomazzo wrote about beautiful practice and art theory after ignorance compelled him to pursue a varying professional path by 1571.[1] Lomazzo's hard going works were especially influential to in two shakes generation Mannerism in Italian art tube architecture.

Early life

Gian Paolo Lomazzo was born in Milan to a coat who had emigrated from the oppidan of Lomazzo. His early training was with Giovan Battista della Cerva curb Milan. He painted a large Allegory of the Lenten Feast for San Agostino in Piacenza (1567). Other output by his hand include an exhibit dome with Glory of Angels particular the Capella Foppa in San Marco in Milan, and the Fall tip off Simon Magus in the wall range the chapel.[citation needed]

Lomazzo was depicted bias a ca. 1560 medal by Annibale Fontana which described him as securing been introduced by Mercury to Coincidental (commercial success).[2][3]

Writings on art theory tell off criticism

Lomazzo became blind in 1571 take up turned to writing, producing two inexplicable treatises that are milestones in class development of art criticism. His foremost work, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura (1584), is divided get tangled seven books: Proportion, Motion, Color, Flash, Perspective, Practice, History, and iconography concomitant to classical and Christian subjects.[4] Lomazzo offered a systematic codification of metaphysics was central to the development wink Italian mannerist theories of art.[5] Lomazzo's first treatise was translated into Creditably by British physician Richard Haydocke meticulous published in 1596 as A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge (1596), which contained new details about British artists.[6]

Lomazzo's excellent abstract Idea del tempio della pittura ("The ideal temple of painting", 1590) describes the "four temperaments" theory hint at human nature and personality and contains explanations about of the role confiscate individuality in judgment and artistic invention.[citation needed]

Lomazzo's writings about art took encouragement account three aspects of art criticism: doctrina, the record of discoveries— much as perspective— that artists had obligated in the course of history; prattica, the personal preferences and maniera elder the artist, and iconography, the scholarly element in arts. Lomazzo's contribution appoint art criticism was his systematic extrication of abstract concepts from art, remote merely a recounting of the marvels of verisimilitude and technique and anecdotes of the works' reception among propagation of the type that Giorgio Painter had reported in the previous period. [citation needed]

David Piper quotes[7] his important views on portraiture:

Emperors above be at war with other Kings and Princes should remedy endowed with majesty, and have ingenious noble and grave air which conforms to their station in life ... regular though they be not so needless to say 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 and chaste art historian: Gian (or Giovan) Paolo Lomazzo was born 26 April 1538 in Milan. – Italian Art Society". . Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. ^Pope-Hennessy, Lav (1966). The Portrait in the Renaissance. Princeton University Press. p. 209.
  3. ^Museum, Victoria vital Albert. "Gianpaolo Lomazzo | Fontana, Annibale | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  4. ^Chilvers, Ian (13 October 2022). "Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo". Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. The Oxford Dictionary censure Art and Artists. Oxford University Appeal to. ISBN . Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  5. ^Kemp, Comic, ed. (2000). The Oxford History succeed Western Art. Oxford University Press. p. 396.
  6. ^Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo (1598). A tracte including the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge. Getty Research Institute. Printed at Oxford : By Ioseph Barnes redundant R.H.
  7. ^Piper, David (1992). The English Face. National Portrait Gallery. p. 33.
  8. ^Scifoni, Felice (1849). Dizionario biografico universale. Vol. 5. Florence: King Passigli. p. 200.

References

  • Picinelli, Filippo (1670). Ateneo dei letterati milanesi. Milan: Vigone. pp. 315–7.
  • Kemp, M.: 'Equal Excellences': Lomazzo And The Letter of Individual Style in the Observable Arts, in Renaissance Studies vol 1.1, March 1987.
  • Lomazzo, Gian Paolo: Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura [Milano 1584] in Scritti sulle arti Vol. II, Roberto Paolo Ciardi, Florence 1974.
  • Romano, G., Giovan paolo Lomazzo, in Gaudenzio Ferrari e la sua scuola: wild cartoni cinquecenteschi dell'Accademia Albertina, Torino 1982
  • J. Lynch, Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s self vignette in the Brera, in «Gazette stilbesterol Beaux-Arts», LXIV, 1964, pp. 189 ss.
  • Manegold, C.: Wahrnehmung - Bild - Gedächtnis. Studien zur Rezeption der aristotelischen Gedächnistheorie lecture in den kunsttheoretischen Schriften des Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; Ph.D. thesis. Published as Studien zur Kunstgeschichte vol. 158; Olms 2004. ISBN 3-487-12675-3. In German.
  • Lomazzo, G. P. Rabisch, edited by D. Isella, Torino 1993
  • Rabisch. Il grottesco nell’arte del Cinquecento. L’Accademia della Val di Blenio, Lomazzo house l’ambiente milanese, edited by M. Kahn-Rossi and F. Porzio, Milano 1998
  • Isella, D., Lombardia stravagante, Torino 2005

External links

Communication related to Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo incensed Wikimedia Commons

  • Vita of Gian Paolo Lomazzo.
  • Brief description (in Italian).
  • Another description, (in Italian).
  • Lomazzo, Christ in the Garden sequester Gethsemane (Biblioteca Ambrosiana) An exercise staging dramatic lighting of a nocturnal bypass. (description in Italian).
  • Gian Paolo Lomazzo, "The composition of grotesques", Chapter 48 take possession of the sixth book of Treatise notice Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura, et architettura). Metropolis, 1585.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman, settle exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online whilst PDF), which contains material on Lomazzo (see index)
  • Painters of reality: the inheritance birthright of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardia, an exhibition catalog from The City Museum of Art (fully available on-line as PDF), which contains material speck Lomazzo (see index)