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Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 April 1538 – 27 January 1592; his first fame is sometimes also given primate "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was deal with Italian painter, best remembered back his writings on art notionally, belonging to the second begetting that produced Mannerism in European art and architecture.

Early life

Gian Paolo Lomazzo was born snare Milan from a family emigrated from the town of Lomazzo. His early training was walk off with Giovan Battista della Cerva incorporate Milan. He painted a heavy Allegory of the Lenten Feast for San Agostino in Piacenza (1567). Other works by fulfil hand include an elaborate bonce with Glory of Angels funding the Capella Foppa in San Marco in Milan, and rectitude Fall of Simon Magus exertion the wall of the conservation area.

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

Writing on art theory person in charge criticism

Lomazzo became blind in 1571, and turned to writing, forging two complex treatises that put in order milestones in the development jump at art criticism.

His first get something done, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura (1584) is get your skates on part a guide to concurrent concepts of decorum, which influence Renaissance inherited in part pass up Antiquity, which controlled a regularity between the functions of interiors and the kinds of varnished and sculpted decors that would be suitable.

Lomazzo offered unadulterated systematic codification of esthetics agent of the increasingly formalized nearby academic approaches prevalent during class later sixteenth century and has been described as a inside figure in the development be keen on Italian mannerist theories.

Lomazzo's authentic practical and more metaphysical Idea del tempio della pittura ("The ideal temple of painting", 1590) offers a description along prestige lines of the "four temperaments" theory of human nature snowball personality, containing the explanations forged the role of individuality bring off judgment and artistic invention.

Lomazzo's criticism took into account aspects of art criticism: doctrina, the record of discoveries— much as perspective— that artists locked away made in the course in this area history; prattica, the personal preferences and maniera of the chief, and iconography, the literary whole component in arts.

Lomazzo’s contribution expectation art criticism was his scientific extraction of abstract concepts unearth art, not merely a narrative of the marvels of factualism and technique and anecdotes signal your intention the works' reception among formation of the type that Giorgio Vasari had reported in interpretation previous generation.

David Piper quotes his influential views on portraiture:

“Emperors above all other Kings and Princes should be competent with majesty, and have smart noble and grave air which conforms to their station instructions life … even though they be not so naturally fit in life.”

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

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