Trattato dell'arte de la pittura : diuiso in sette libri, ne' quali si contiene tutta la theorica, & la prattica d'essa pittura / di Gio. Paolo Lomazzo, milanese pittore.

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Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600 [Browse]
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Book
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Italian
Published/​Created
In Milano : Appresso Paolo Gottardo Pontio, 1584.
Description
[40], 700 [i.e. 698], [2] p. : port. ; 23 cm. (4to)

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    • Subsequently issued with new t.p. reading: Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura ... In Milano : Per Paolo Gottardo Pontio ... a instantia di Pietro Tini, 1584; reissued, 1585. Cf. Comolli, Fowler; cf. also R.P. Ciardi's ed. of the author's Scritti sulle arti (Firenze, 1973), v. 1, p. lxxxiii-lxxxiv.
    • "Dell'arte di allongare la vista quanto si vuole ... [Libro 6.], Cap. XVII": [4] p. (the last blank) unsigned and not counted in collation, inserted following p. 680. Intended for insertion following p. 328; present in some copies only. For discussion, cf. Ciardi (cited above).
    • Signatures: [dagger]⁸-2[dagger]¹², A-2V⁸, 2X⁶ (cf. Registro at end).
    • Numerous errors in paging; 693-694 omitted.
    • Errata: [2] p. at end.
    • Illustrations: 1 print : woodcut ; image 10 x 8 cm. (oval). On special t.p. to Book 1. Subject: port. of Lomazzo, after a medal by Annibale Fontana. Cf. Ciardi, v. 1, p. lxxxiv, note 22.
    • Arms of the dedicatee (Charles Emanuel I, Grand Duke of Savoy) on t.p.; floriated and historiated initials.
    • "Tauola de i nomi de gl'artefici ...Tauola de i nomi de gl'autori citati nell'opera": p. 681-700.
    • Light annotations in two different hands scattered throughout text.
    Source acquisition
    Donated by Frank L. Mather Jr.
    References
    • BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 391
    • Brunet, III, col. 1148 note
    • Comolli, A. Bib. storico-critica dell'architettura civile, I, p. 18-24
    • Fowler 186 note
    • Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara 159
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    Other title(s)
    Trattato Dell'Arte De La Pittvra.
    OCLC
    20342814
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