Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's Trattato Dell'arte Della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-33025-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Nuncius Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tramelli, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii

Editorial Principles ix

List of Illustrations x


Introduction: Aims, Sources and Methodology 1

Part 1 Lomazzo and Milan

1 The Artist and the Traveller 17

2 Spaces and Institutions 37

3 Art and Grotesque 63

Part 2 Color, Perspective and Anatomy

The Treatise: A Short Introduction 77

4 Lomazzo’s Colors 85

5 Acutissima è La Prospettiva 128

6 The Study of the Body 174

General Conclusions 211

APPENDICES

1 Contract between Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo and Giulio Claro, Reggente in Milan, dated 1561 221

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 223

3 Difinicione della tavola sopra detta 224

4 Straducc dra vall de Bregn 226

5 Inventory 24th January 1604, doc. B, notary Benedetto Coerezio, f. 20578 227

6 Inventory, 11th November 1611, Fondo Litta, carte 32 229

7 Libro III Del Colore (1584) 230

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) 231

8 b. Lomazzo, IV chapter of III book of the Trattato, Quali siano le materie nelle quali si trovino i colori 231

Bibliography 233

Index of Names 250

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Barbara Tramelli obtained her PhD in Art history at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin. She held fellowships from the Warburg Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is currently working on the project ‘Le livre illustré à Lyon 1480-1600’, Equipex Biblissima, CNRS, Lyon.