Dr. Barbara Tramelli obtained her PhD in Art history at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin. She held fellowships from the Warburg Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is currently working on the project ‘Le livre illustré à Lyon 1480-1600’, Equipex Biblissima, CNRS, Lyon.

• Acknowledgements viiEditorial Principles ixList of Illustrations x Introduction: Aims, Sources and Methodology 1Part 1 Lomazzo and Milan1 The Artist and the Traveller 172 Spaces and Institutions 373 Art and Grotesque 63Part 2 Color, Perspective and AnatomyThe Treatise: A Short Introduction 774 Lomazzo’s Colors 855 Acutissima è La Prospettiva 1286 The Study of the Body 174General Conclusions 211APPENDICES1 Contract between Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo and Giulio Claro, Reggente in Milan, dated 1561 2212 L’interogaçiglion ch’o s’han da fa dar gran Scanscieré pos ra gneregada a col ch’o vùr intrò in dra Vall de Bregn 2233 Difinicione della tavola sopra detta 2244 Straducc dra vall de Bregn 2265 Inventory 24th January 1604, doc. B, notary Benedetto Coerezio, f. 20578 2276 Inventory, 11th November 1611, Fondo Litta, carte 32 2297 Libro III Del Colore (1584) 2308 a. Paduan Manuscript (Merrifield, pp. 648–717), Ricette per fare ogni sorte di colori (Chap. I– De colori in generale, e di quali materie si componghino) 2318 b. Lomazzo, IV chapter of III book of the Trattato, Quali siano le materie nelle quali si trovino i colori 231Bibliography 233Index of Names 250

"Barbara Tramelli’s Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy successfully – and perhaps exhaustively – shows how much Lomazzo’s thinking about art is indebted to the scientific and literary cultures of sixteenth-century Milan.- Joost Keizer (University of Groningen), History of Humanities (Spring 2018), 3:1: 223-224."One of the most important values of Tramelli’s book is that it makes Lomazzo’s broad and prolific writings available to non-Italian scholars, particularly the Trattato, the most widely read of his books, which Schlosser has recognized as the “Bible of Mannerism”. [...] Tramelli succeeds in making Lomazzo’s writing lighter and more intelligible, while articulating the topics in shorter paragraphs and highlighting and discussing the contradictions in the text." Mauro Pavesi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXXI , No. 1, pp. 237-239"[the work] demonstrates intellectual honesty in providing an essential and consistent line of interpretation. It is a book that I have read with pleasure, as, in short, it is never discouraging the reader and making him feel inadequate: the difficulties of the reader are the same as those of the author, and she exposes her doubts with the utmost sincerity."- Giovanni Mazzaferro, Letteratura artistica: Cross-cultural Studies in Art History Sources