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BY Albrecht Dürer original: "Alberto Durero", most renowned painter and geometer, on the symmetry of human bodies, four books, newly translated from the Latin language into Italian by Master Giovanni Paolo Gallucci of Salò, and expanded with a fifth book, which treats the ways in which painters and sculptors can show the diversity of the nature of men and women, and the passions they feel through the various accidents that occur to them, now newly printed. In Venice. 1594. folio. A "folio" is a large book format where the paper sheets are folded once. The four books of Albrecht Dürer have been printed several times in the Latin, German, French, and Italian languages.
Jost Amman of Zurich’s original: "Iusti Ammani Tigurini" handbook of the art of painting, molding, and sculpting. Frankfurt 1578. quarto. A "quarto" is a medium-sized book format.
Treatise on the art of painting by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Milanese painter, divided into seven books, in which is contained all the theory and practice of the said painting. In Milan 1584. quarto.
The Idea of the Temple of Painting original: "Idea del tempio della pittura" by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, painter, in which he discourses on the origin and foundation of the things contained in his treatise on the art of painting. In Milan 1590. quarto.
On the form of the Muses drawn from ancient Greek and Latin authors, a most useful work for painters and sculptors, by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Milanese painter. In Milan 1591. quarto.
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The Rest original: "Il riposo" by Raffaello Borghini, in which painting and sculpture are discussed, the most illustrious painters and sculptors and their most famous works are mentioned, and the principal things belonging to the said arts are taught. In Florence 1584. octavo. An "octavo" is a smaller, portable book format.
Discourse by Alessandro Lamo concerning sculpture and painting, where he reasons on the life of Master Bernardino Campo, Cremonese painter. In Cremona. 1584. quarto.
On the true precepts of painting by Master Giovanni Battista Armenini of Faenza, three books, in which the methods of drawing and painting, etc., are demonstrated. In Ravenna 1587. quarto.
Two dialogues by Master Giovanni Andrea Gilio of Fabriano; in the first of which the moral and civil parts belonging to courtly men of letters are discussed, and the utility that princes draw from men of letters: in the second, the errors of painters regarding history are discussed, with many annotations made upon the Judgment of Michelangelo Referring to the "Last Judgment" fresco in the Sistine Chapel., and other figures, both of the old and the new chapel Likely referring to the different decorative phases of the Sistine Chapel., and in what manner sacred images ought to be painted. In Camerino 1564. quarto.
The Figino, or on the purpose of painting, a dialogue by the Reverend Father Don Gregorio Comanini, Lateran Canon Regular, where, debating whether the purpose of painting is utility or delight, the use of it in Christianity is treated, and it is shown who is the more perfect imitator and who delights more: the painter or the poet. In Mantua 1591. quarto.
Treatise on the nobility of painting, composed at the instance of the venerable Company of Saint Luke The patron saint of painters; this refers to the painters' guild in Rome., and the noble academy of the painters of Rome, by Romano Alberti of the city of Borgo San Sepolcro. In Rome 1585. quarto.
The Idea of painters, sculptors, and architects, by the Knight Federico Zuccaro, divided into two books. In Turin 1607. folio.
Origin and progress of the Academy of Design, of painters, sculptors, and architects of Rome, containing many most useful discourses and philosophical reasonings belonging to the aforementioned professions, and in particular some new definitions of design, painting, sculpture, and architecture, and the manner of guiding the young and perfecting the experienced, recited under the leadership of the excellent Lord—