Adams, L-1420; Brunet, III, 1148 Cicognara, 160; Fowler, 186.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition, second issue, with the new title page dated 1585.<\/span><\/p>\n Lomazzo, a trained painter, was a notable figure in the intellectual circles of late-sixteenth-century northern Italy. When blindness forced an end to his life as an artist at the age of thirty-three, Lomazzo devoted himself to writing about art. His treatises on artists and art theories are still recognized as some of the most important works of the period focusing on Mannerism. The Trattato<\/i> is one of his most scholarly and ambitious undertakings. Notable are his biographies of contemporary artists working in northern Italy as well as those of artists of the preceeding generation. Especially important is Lomazzo’s discussion of Leonardo. Compared to Vasari, however, Lomazzo gives detailed practical instruction on the creation of art.<\/p>\n “Peintre milanais, qui fut aussi po\u00e8te et th\u00e9oricien de l\u2019art. Le nom de Lomazzo reste attach\u00e9 \u00e0 un vaste trait\u00e9 didactique sur la peinteure, Trattato dell’arte della pittura<\/i> (1584), divis\u00e9 en sept livres correspondant chacun \u00e0 une \u00ab partie \u00bb de cet art : proportion, expression, couleur, lumi\u00e8re, perspective, pratique et formes (en fait, iconographie) ; ainsi qu’\u00e0 un ouvrage, vraisemblablement con\u00e7u en m\u00eame temps que le Trattato<\/i>, pr\u00e9sentant, selon une construction all\u00e9gorique compliqu\u00e9e (h\u00e9rit\u00e9e de Giulio Camillo), les sept \u00ab gouverneurs \u00bb canoniques de l’art renvoyant aux sept \u00ab parties \u00bb \u00e9nonc\u00e9es plus haut, L’Idea del tempio della pittura<\/i> (1590). Les deux trait\u00e9s, consid\u00e9r\u00e9s par certains comme la \u00ab bible du mani\u00e9risme \u00bb, entendent offrir au peintre une explication exhaustive du syst\u00e8me des arts et pr\u00e9voir tous les cas qui pourraient se pr\u00e9senter \u00e0 son invention. Lomazzo se fonde sur une m\u00e9thode inspir\u00e9e de la rh\u00e9torique en d\u00e9finissant puis en divisant chaque \u00ab partie \u00bb de la peinture en sous-cat\u00e9gories, en l’illustrant d’exemples tir\u00e9s non seulement des arts, mais de la Bible, de la po\u00e9sie \u00e9pique (principalement de l’Arioste), de la philosophie, de l’histoire antique et moderne. Avec le Trattato<\/i>, on assiste \u00e0 un effort syst\u00e9matique d’intellectualiser compl\u00e8tement le contenu de la peinture. Pour la premi\u00e8re fois dans la litt\u00e9rature artistique, Lomazzo applique des mod\u00e8les magiques et astrologiques \u00e0 l’explication des arts. Comme le magicien, l’artiste doit conna\u00eetre la plan\u00e8te qui le gouverne pour communiquer certains influx astraux \u00e0 son \u0153uvre et faire ainsi participer le spectateur \u00e0 l’istoria repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e. Mieux, il devrait combiner objectivement ces influx pour atteindre \u00e0 la beaut\u00e9 parfaite et toucher l’ensemble de son public. Lomazzo reconna\u00eet le style personnel (maniera) de l’artiste comme valeur positive, mais r\u00eave d’un \u00e9clectisme sup\u00e9rieur qui pr\u00e9serverait l’id\u00e9al de beau unique qui sous-tendait la th\u00e9orie des grands artistes de la Renaissance \u00bb (in: Encyclopaedia Universalis, Marc Le Cannu).<\/p>\n Fine, broadmargined copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (224 x 162 mm) 20 nn.ll., 700 pp., 1 un.l., author’s woodcut portrait at the beginning of the text. Contemporary flexible vellum, flat spine with manuscript title (spine slightly torn at top of head).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":80248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[1200,1201,1202,1199,1450,1203],"class_list":{"0":"post-80253","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-architecture-2","8":"product_tag-drawing","9":"product_tag-engraving","10":"product_tag-fine-arts","11":"product_tag-first-edition","12":"product_tag-ornament","13":"pa_auteur-lomazzo-giovanni-paolo-2","14":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","16":"first","17":"instock","18":"shipping-taxable","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Giovanni Paolo LOMAZZO","chapeau":"Bound in contemporary flexible vellum","adresse_bibliographique":"Milan, Paolo Gottardo Pontio, 1585","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n