Treatise on the Art of Painting

BY SIR GIULIANO GOSELINI.

He so equaled nourishing Nature,
Giving so much strength and life to colors,
That she, conquered and mocked by his brush,
Took his eyes from him. Ah, too cruel a fate. Lomazzo began to lose his sight in 1571 and was completely blind by age 33. This forced him to turn from painting to writing art theory.
But with internal sight he possesses Painting,
Woven into such clear and true history;
That she has risen to much greater esteem,
And he no longer cares for the light that was taken.
From the heavens and the stars he draws movement and light,
And from the First Idea original: "prima Idea." In Renaissance philosophy, this refers to the perfect, divine form of an object existing in the mind before it is physically created. he derives the forms
Of drawing and coloring for Art.
And how, though blind, he descends—and by what paths—
From the Empyrean the highest part of heaven, thought in the 16th century to be the realm of pure fire and the dwelling place of God to the Abysses, and enlightens others,
Learn here, reader, in these learned and illustrious pages.