Lomazzo's Aesthetic Principles Reflected in the Art of His Time: With a Foreword by Paolo Roberto Ciardi, an Introduction by Jean Julia Chai, and an A

By Lucia Tantardini

Lomazzo's Aesthetic Principles Reflected in the Art of his Time explores the work of the Milanese artist-theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538-92) and his influence on the circle of the Accademia della Val di Blenio and beyond. Following reflections on Lomazzo's fortuna critica, the accompanying essays examine his admiration of Gaudenzio Ferrari; Lomazzo's painted oeuvre; his influence on printmaking with Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla; on drawing and painting with Aurelio Luini; on the decorative arts and the embroideress Caterina Cantoni; his pupils Giovanni Ambrogio Figino and Girolamo Ciocca; grotesque sculpture outside Milan; and Lomazzo in England with Richard Haydocke's translation of the Trattato. In doing so, this book takes an innovative approach--one which aims to bridge the scholarship, hitherto disjoined, between Lomazzo the artist and Lomazzo the theorist--while expanding our knowledge of a protagonist of Renaissance and early modern art theory.

Contributors: Alessia Alberti, Federico Cavalieri, Jean Julia Chai, Roberto Paolo Ciardi, Alexander Marr, Silvia Mausoli, Mauro Pavesi, Rossana Sacchi, Paolo Sanvito, and Lucia Tantardini.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004359508
• ISBN13: 9789004359505
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"