Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 12, 2024
Italy, Milan, Annibale Fontana (1540-87), Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (Milanese painter, poet and writer on art, 1538-1600), bronze medal
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Italy, Milan, Annibale Fontana (1540-87), Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (Milanese painter, poet and writer on art, 1538-1600), bronze medal, bust left with cloak loosely knotted at shoulder, rev., VTRIVSQVE, Mercury presenting Lomazzo to Fortune, 50.5mm (Attwood 123; Arm. I, 254, 2 and III, 121, a; Hill, Artists, 41), pierced, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina Ex Rosenheim collection, Sotheby's, 30 April 1923, lot 163 and Arthur Lobbecke collection, Jacques Schulman, Amsterdam, 17 June 1929, lot 75. The medal is specifically mentioned in a sonnet by Lomazzo, Sopra una medaglia fatta di Annibale Fontana and in a further sonnet describing the medal's reverse. An example of this medal was sold here on 11 June 2008, lot 415.
Morton & Eden
Feb. 01, 2024
Christ and a Young Child between Saints Peter and John
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Attributed to Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo Milan 1538 - 1592 Christ and a Young Child between Saints Peter and John inscribed lower edge: NISI EFFECIAMINI - SICVI PARVVLVS ISTE. - / NON INTRARITIS IN REGNVM - CAELORVM - oil on canvas canvas: 34 by 26 ¾ in.; 86.4 by 68.0 cm. framed: 46 ¾ by 39 ⅛ in.; 118.7 by 99.4 cm.
Sotheby's
Oct. 20, 2022
Lomazzo (Giovanni Paolo) A Tracte containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge, first edition in English, Oxford, [1598].
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Lomazzo (Giovanni Paolo) A Tracte containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge, translated by Richard Haydocke, first edition in English, engraved title and 13 full-page illustrations, some after Dürer, woodcut initials and numerous fine typographical ornaments, lacking final leaf (colophon), title with contemporary inscription at head (shaved) and rather soiled and frayed at edges with slight loss to outer corners (neatly supplied in ink and laid down), small stains to A2-3, B5 & D6, some other staining towards end particularly 2O1 & 2, a few leaves shaved at head at end, 2I1 defective at foot with slight loss to ornament and 3 lines of text on verso, a remboitage in later crimson straight-grain morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with wheel design, spine gilt in compartments, later paste-paper endpapers, rubbed, spine faded, [Harris 519; STC 16698; cf.Berlin Kat 4612 & Fowler 186, earlier Milan editions], small folio (c.250 x 180mm.), [Oxford, by Joseph Barnes for Richard Haydocke], [1598]. ⁂ Lomazzo's influential Mannerist treatise was the first treatise on art to be published in England. It was dedicated to Thomas Bodley and was one of the first works to be presented to the Bodleian Library. "It was the first book on the arts to be translated and the reason for its choice must have been its thorough treatment of painting...". Harris p.297.
Forum Auctions - UK
Nov. 29, 2018
GIOVANNI PAOLO LOMAZZO (attr. a)
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
(Milano, 1538 - 1592) Tre uomini con una donna che tiene una gazza Olio su tavola, cm 65X88 Nel secondo libro del suo famoso 'Trattato dell'arte della pittura' (1584), Lomazzo discute i quattro 'temperamenti' (o emozioni) e il loro rapporto con le arti figurative. Per illustrare il suo punto di vista l'autore descrive un dipinto di Michelino da Besozzo definito 'stravagante': '[...] dipinse quattro rustici che ridevano insieme, due uomini e due donne, e ritraevano il più vecchio rasato, che si guarda intorno e ride come se fosse divertito oltre ogni limite mentre con la sinistra stringe lascivamente la donna di campagna alla sua sinistra, che ha tra le braccia un gatto che sembra anche divertirsi scodinzolando [...]' Qualunque sia la genesi esatta della descrizione, i paralleli tra l'opera descritta da Lomazzo e la composizione in esame sono evidenti e si tratta di un genere diffuso in ambito lombardo ed emiliano nel corso del XVI secolo. Infatti, di queste opere fu raccolto un gruppo simile con attribuzioni più disparate al Frangipane e a Vincenzo Campi, ma con differenze nei dettagli espressivi, pose e costumi, come si evince osservando le tavole all'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, al Museo di Angers, e al Museo Civico di Novara. Non si deve tralasciare il disegno correlato alla cerchia di Lomazzo dell'Accademia di Venezia, che attesta l'origine prettamente lombarda di questa iconografia e la sua pertinenza all'atelier del pittore. Bibiografia di riferimento: B. Meijer, 'Esempi del comico figurativo nel Rinascimento Lombardo', in 'Arte Lombarda', vol. XVI, 1971, pp. 263- 264, figg. 3 - 8 U. Ruggeri, 'Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia: Disegni Lombardi', Milano 1982, pp. 72-73. n. 56 F. Paliaga in 'Rabisch, il grottesco nell'arte del Cinquecento, l'Accademia della Val di Blenio, Lomazzo e l'ambiente milanese', catalogo della mostra a cura di G. Bora, Milano 1998, pp. 146 - 147, pp. 146 - 147, nn. 14 - 16
Wannenes Art Auctions
Jan. 31, 2018
GIOVANNI PAOLO LOMAZZO | The Virgin supported by St. Anne and the Magdalene
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Black chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue paper
Sotheby's
Dec. 14, 2017
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo
Est: €600 - €800
Trattato dell'Arte della Pittura, Scoltura, et Architettura Milano, Paolo Gottardo Da Ponte & Pietro Tini, 1585. In 4°. Marca tipografica al frontespizio, ritratto dell'autore inciso in legno al frontespizio del primo libro, capilettera ornati, qualche lieve macchia e fioriture, restauri alle pp. 225 - 238 ed all'ultima, legatura moderna in mezza pergamena. Note di possesso al frontespizio.
Finarte Roma
Dec. 14, 2017
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo
Est: €1,300 - €1,500
Rime [...] divise in sette libri. Nelle quali ad imitazione de' i Grotteschi usati da' pittori, ha cantato le lodi di Dio [...] Milano, Paolo Gottardo da Ponte, 1587. In 4°. Un frontespizio generale all'opera e 7 frontespizi, uno per ciascun libro, ciascuno con il ritratto dell'autore inciso in legno in ovale, leggera gora d'acqua e qualche arrossature sparse su poche carte, legatura coeva in mezzo vitello, dorso a 3 nervi con tassello con autore e titolo in oro, titolo manoscritto al taglio inferiore, fori di tarlo e lacune. Antica firma di appartenenza al frontespizio.
Finarte Roma
Jul. 13, 2016
LOMAZZO, Giovanni Paolo (1538-1592). Trattato dell’arte de la pittura.
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
LOMAZZO, Giovanni Paolo (1538-1592). Trattato dell’arte de la pittura. Milan: Paolo Gottardo da Ponte, 1584. 4° (205 x 150mm). Woodcut arms on title, woodcut portrait of the author after Annibale Fontana on B1. (Title with faint soiling.) 19th-century calf, gilt (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: early inscriptions on title Ö Macclesfeld library (blindstamps and bookplate). First edition, the macclesField copy. Lomazzo was a painter and poet who after becoming blind in 1571/72 dedicated his life to the study of art history. The seven chapters of his book cover the art of proportion, the theory of colours, lighting and shades, the practice of painting and the depiction of the subjects. With the two extra leaves at the end containing the additional chapter 17 from book six. Cicognara 159.
Christie's
Jan. 26, 2012
ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI PAOLO LOMAZZO
Est: $150,000 - $200,000
PROPERTY OF THE LISE HAAS TRUST MILAN 1538 - 1600 THREE MEN WITH A WOMAN HOLDING A CAT oil on panel 17 by 24 in.; 43.2 by 61 cm.
Sotheby's
Dec. 01, 2010
LOMAZZO, GIOVANNI PAOLO.
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
LOMAZZO, GIOVANNI PAOLO. DELLA FORMA DELLE MUSE, CAVATA DA GLI ANTICHI AUTORI GRECI, ET LATINI, OPERA UTILISSIMA A PITTORI, ET SCOLTORI. MILAN: PAOLO GOTTARDO DA PONTE, (1591) 4to (217x 159mm.), woodcut portrait on title-page, carta rustica wrapper, edges uncut (top edge unopened), a4 slightly torn at head
Sotheby's
Jul. 09, 2009
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (Milan 1538-1600)
Est: £4,000 - £5,000
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (Milan 1538-1600) The grieving Virgin with two women black and white chalk on blue paper, minor losses, made up 9¼ x 8 3/8 in. (23.5 x 21.3 cm.), unframed
Christie's
Dec. 05, 2008
LOMAZZO, Giovanni Paolo (1538-1600). A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge Carvinge & Buildinge... Englished by R[ichard]. H[aydock] . Oxford: Joseph Barnes for R.H[aydock], 1598.
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
LOMAZZO, Giovanni Paolo (1538-1600). A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge Carvinge & Buildinge... Englished by R[ichard]. H[aydock]. Oxford: Joseph Barnes for R.H[aydock], 1598. 2o (260 x 178 mm). Engraved title-page, 13 plates, numerous head- tail-pieces and initials. (Foot of the title-page repaired on verso, one or two marginal tears affecting the running headline on 2H3 and the plate mark on 2R6.) Modern calf gilt antique. "THE FIRST TREATISE ON PAINTING TO BE PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH" (DNB) FIRST ENGLISH EDITION and translation of books 1-5 (of 7) of Lomazzo's Trattato dell'arte de la Pittura of 1584: "a compendium of Mannerist theory, most interesting for the emphasis it places on light and on psychological expression, where he revived themes explored by Leonardo" (Grove Art). With illustrations by Haydock (1569/70 - ca 1642) (including a self-portrait on the title-page) based on Dürer's Vier Bücher of 1528. Haydock published A Tracte while a still a student at New College Oxford. Harris 519; STC 16698.
Christie's
Jun. 11, 2008
[ Medals ]
Est: £6,000 - £8,000
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538-1600, Milanese painter), bronze medal by Annibale Fontana, nude bust of Lomazzo left with drapery knotted over left shoulder, rev., Mercury presenting Lomazzo to Fortune, 50mm (Arm I, 254, 2 and III, 121, a; Hill, Artists, 41; Pollard, Washington, 509), some marks but otherwise an extremely fine contemporary cast with mottled brown patina : Ex Sotheby's Zurich, 26-27 November 1975, lot 715.
Morton & Eden
Jun. 05, 2007
LOMAZZO, Pietro (1538-1600). Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura, et architettura . Milan: P.G. Ponzio, 1585. 4° (210 x 150mm). Woodcut portrait of Lomazzo on B1 r, with the final errata/register leaf. 17th-century vellum (upper hinge
Est: £1,500 - £2,500
LOMAZZO, Pietro (1538-1600). Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura, et architettura . Milan: P.G. Ponzio, 1585. 4° (210 x 150mm). Woodcut portrait of Lomazzo on B1 r, with the final errata/register leaf. 17th-century vellum (upper hinge broken). Provenance : Hans Semper (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, second issue. In this copy the leaf which begins 'Dell'arte di allongare la vista quanto si vuole' and which is found in a very few copies has been supplied in a nineteenth-century hand. Edit-on line 24454; this issue not in Adams; Cicognara 160 (his copy also containing the leaf in manuscript).
Christie's
Apr. 14, 2005
LOMAZZO, GIOVANNI PAOLO.
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Idea del tempio della pittura... nella quale egli discorre dell'origine, & fondamento delle cose contenute nel suo trattato dell'arte della pittura. Milan: Paolo Gottardo da Ponte, (1590) Condition Note: first edition, 4to (201 x 146mm.), [32], 168pp., illustration : woodcut portrait medallion of the author after Annibale Fontana on title-page, woodcut initials, binding : eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece, red speckled edges, small water-stain towards end, binding very slightly rubbed We are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described in our catalogue. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE. LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Censimento 16 CNCE 24458; Cicognara 162
Sotheby's
Apr. 14, 2005
LOMAZZO, GIOVANNI PAOLO.
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, carvinge & buildinge... Englished by R. H[aydock]. [Oxford: Joseph Barnes for R. H[aydock], 1598] Condition Note: folio (278 x 195mm.), [24 (including engraved title-page)], 119, [1], 218pp., illustration : engraved title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, full-page engraved illustrations, binding : eighteenth-century vellum-backed blue boards, lacking final leaf (containing colophon), title-leaf slightly soiled, C6 frayed at edge (affecting illustration) and remounted, D6 remounted, paper flaw on Aa1, occasional slight damp-staining, boards a little soiled We are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described in our catalogue. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE. LITERATURE AND REFERENCES STC 16698; Harris 519 CATALOGUE NOTE First English translation of books 1-5 of Lomazzo's Trattato (see lot 1265). "It was the first book on the arts to be translated and the reason for its choice must have been its thorough treatment of painting, which was not to be found in any earlier treatises, rather than its exhaustive exposition of later Mannerist theory imbued with the religious principles of the Counter Reformation" (Harris, p.297). The original text was unillustrated; the images here were supplied by Haydock and are his earliest extant engravings.
Sotheby's
Apr. 14, 2005
LOMAZZO, GIOVANNI PAOLO (1538-1600).
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Trattato de l'arte e de la pittura... diviso in sette libri. Ne' quali si contiene tutta la theorica, & la prattica d'essa pittura. Milan: Paolo Gottardo da Ponte, 1584 Condition Note: 4to (205 x 146mm.), [40], 692, 695-700, [6]pp., last three leaves containing errata and an additional chapter 17 for book 6, illustration : woodcut arms on title-page of the dedicatee (Carlo Emanuele, grand duke of Savoy), woodcut initials, woodcut medallion portrait of the author after Annibale Fontana, binding : eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-piece, red speckled edges, binding a little rubbed We are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described in our catalogue. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE. LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Censimento 16 CNCE 24452; Cicognara 159; A. Blunt, Artistic theory in Italy 1450-1600, chapter IX, "The later Mannerists" CATALOGUE NOTE Lomazzo, a painter by trade, was a pupil of Gaudenzio Ferrari. The onset of blindness at the age of 33 turned him to the theory and philosophy of art. Strongly Neoplatonist in his views, he believed that beauty was something divine infused into man, independent of sense impressions, a spiritual grace ("una certa grazia vivace & spirituale"). He was much influenced by astrology, and in his attitude towards mathematics and its relationship with painting, he turned away from the geometrical attitude of the early humanists towards one that relied more on the individual eye.
Sotheby's
Jan. 21, 2004
* GIOVANNI PAOLO LOMAZZO MILAN 1538 - 1600
Est: $3,500 - $4,500
STUDY OF A DRAPED FIGURE, HIS HAND RAISED
Sotheby's