• Thumbnail for Gian Paolo Lomazzo
    Gian Paolo Lomazzo (26 April 1538 – 27 January 1592; his first name is sometimes also given as "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was an Italian artist and writer...
    9 KB (935 words) - 02:01, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mannerism
    Mannerist, in short.. Another literary figure from the period is Gian Paolo Lomazzo, who produced two works—one practical and one metaphysical—that helped...
    73 KB (8,527 words) - 22:54, 26 October 2024
  • now typically expressed as Gian include: Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor Gian Rinaldo Carli, Italian count...
    2 KB (261 words) - 19:34, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cowlick
    century, when physician Richard Haydock used it in his translation of Gian Paolo Lomazzo: "The lockes or plaine feakes of haire called cow-lickes, are made...
    2 KB (166 words) - 16:31, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Last Supper (Leonardo)
    would use the features of the prior who had complained. In 1557, Gian Paolo Lomazzo wrote that Leonardo's friend Bernardo Zenale advised him to leave...
    44 KB (4,834 words) - 02:08, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Figura serpentinata
    writes of the painter and theorist Gian Paolo Lomazzo (1538–1600): "The recommended ideal form unites, after Lomazzo, three qualities: the pyramid, the...
    4 KB (467 words) - 17:40, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mona Lisa
    fit with historical descriptions of the painting. Both Vasari and Gian Paolo Lomazzo describe the subject as smiling, unlike the subject in Cotte's supposed...
    101 KB (10,134 words) - 20:09, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grotesque
    writers on grottesche included Daniele Barbaro, Pirro Ligorio and Gian Paolo Lomazzo. In the meantime, through the medium of engravings the grotesque mode...
    38 KB (4,543 words) - 13:39, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Haydock
    recorded use of the term "cowlick" when he used it in his translation of Gian Paolo Lomazzo: "The lockes or plaine feakes of haire called cow-lickes, are made...
    3 KB (376 words) - 20:35, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michelangelo
    of the latter, "all he had in art, he got from me". According to Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Michelangelo and Raphael met once: the former was alone, while the...
    83 KB (9,961 words) - 01:49, 1 November 2024