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La musica nel Trattato dell’arte de la pittura di Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1584)

Abstract

The Trattato dell’arte de la pittura (Treatise on the art of painting) written by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538–92), theorist, painter and poet from Milan, is among the most important of the second half of the sixteenth century. This essay focuses on the various musical elements present in the Treatise starting from the ut pictura musica. It complements them with some ideas related to music in the Idea del tempio della pittura (Idea of the temple of painting) by the same author. It highlights and analyzes original questions raised by Lomazzo that have not previously been addressed in the musicological field, essentially how to paint high or low sounds, that is, how to represent the diversity of pitches, specific to music together with its temporal dimension. Furthermore the topic of ‘convenient’ depictions on musical instruments is explored in the final section.

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