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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.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 254
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Nuncius Series
Publication Date:
17 November 2016
ISBN: 9789004330252
Format: Hardcover
"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
- 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
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.