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Book SynopsisTramelli considers three main areas of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s studies: color, perspective and anatomy, investigating the types of theoretical and practical knowledge on these subjects conveyed in the Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura and how the context of Milan at the end of the sixteenth century shaped the material gathered in Lomazzo’s books.
Trade Review"Barbara Tramelli’s Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy successfully – and perhaps exhaustively – shows how much Lomazzo’s thinking about art is indebted to the scientific and literary cultures of sixteenth-century Milan. - Joost Keizer (University of Groningen), History of Humanities (Spring 2018), 3:1: 223-224. "One of the most important values of Tramelli’s book is that it makes Lomazzo’s broad and prolific writings available to non-Italian scholars, particularly the Trattato, the most widely read of his books, which Schlosser has recognized as the “Bible of Mannerism”. [...] Tramelli succeeds in making Lomazzo’s writing lighter and more intelligible, while articulating the topics in shorter paragraphs and highlighting and discussing the contradictions in the text." Mauro Pavesi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXXI , No. 1, pp. 237-239 "[the work] demonstrates intellectual honesty in providing an essential and consistent line of interpretation. It is a book that I have read with pleasure, as, in short, it is never discouraging the reader and making him feel inadequate: the difficulties of the reader are the same as those of the author, and she exposes her doubts with the utmost sincerity." - Giovanni Mazzaferro, Letteratura artistica: Cross-cultural Studies in Art History Sources
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
