Lot 1266: LOMAZZO, GIOVANNI PAOLO.

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

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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.