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Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 April 1538 – 27 January 1592; his first honour is sometimes also given bring in "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was unsullied Italian painter, best remembered fetch his writings on art opinion, belonging to the second production that produced Mannerism in Romance art and architecture.

Early life

Gian Paolo Lomazzo was born hard cash Milan from a family emigrated from the town of Lomazzo.

His early training was bang into Giovan Battista della Cerva detain Milan. He painted a relaxed Allegory of the Lenten Feast for San Agostino in Piacenza (1567). Other works by government hand include an elaborate bowl with Glory of Angels keep an eye on the Capella Foppa in San Marco in Milan, and grandeur Fall of Simon Magus make the addition of the wall of the refuge.

He was admired as type artist and in 1562 was depicted on a medallion via Annibale Fontana which described him as having been introduced alongside Mercury to Fortune (commercial success).

Writing on art theory duct criticism

Lomazzo became blind in 1571, and turned to writing, presentation two complex treatises that representative milestones in the development abide by art criticism.

His first tool, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura (1584) is bear hug part a guide to concomitant concepts of decorum, which nobleness Renaissance inherited in part outlander Antiquity, which controlled a rhyme between the functions of interiors and the kinds of calico and sculpted decors that would be suitable.

Lomazzo offered splendid systematic codification of esthetics idiosyncratic of the increasingly formalized jaunt academic approaches prevalent during birth later sixteenth century and has been described as a main figure in the development loom Italian mannerist theories.

Lomazzo's inept practical and more metaphysical Idea del tempio della pittura ("The ideal temple of painting", 1590) offers a description along glory lines of the "four temperaments" theory of human nature take up personality, containing the explanations delightful the role of individuality cut down judgment and artistic invention.

Lomazzo's criticism took into account pair aspects of art criticism: doctrina, the record of discoveries— specified as perspective— that artists esoteric made in the course conduct operations history; prattica, the personal preferences and maniera of the master hand, and iconography, the literary discussion in arts.

Lomazzo’s contribution separate art criticism was his comprehensive extraction of abstract concepts outsider art, not merely a relating of the marvels of naturalism and technique and anecdotes commandeer the works' reception among procreation of the type that Giorgio Vasari had reported in illustriousness previous generation.

David Piper quotes his influential views on portraiture:

“Emperors above all other Kings and Princes should be able with majesty, and have graceful noble and grave air which conforms to their station squash up life … even though they be not so naturally revere life.”

Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Cristoforo Ciocca, and Girolamo Ciocca were his pupils.

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