PINO, Paolo.

by Paolo Pino

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.First edition of this attractively printed work on painting by the Venetian painter Paolo Pino (1534-65), one of the first pieces of art theory in Venice (Oxford Companion to Western Art). It takes the form of a dialogue between a Venetian and a Tuscan painter, in which the Venetian promotes the importance of colour ( colore ), while the Tuscan insists on the predominance of disegno or design. The relationship between colore and disegno in the draughtsmanship of Venice has a storied past. Undeniably most fundamental are the remarks made by Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) suggesting that Venetian artists neither possessed talents as draughtsmen nor placed due emphasis on preparatory drawing within their working practices The counterpart to this denigrating perspective is the Dialogo di pittura of Paolo Pino, which praised the means by which Venetian artists harnessed colore to imbue their paintings with a striking immediacy (Genevieve Verdigel, Colore in Disegno in Master Drawings, 58.2 (2020), p. 149). .. . . ..More than this, Pino attempts to present an idealised unification of the two elements of painting. His interlocutors discuss the properties of natural beauty, especially that possessed by women, describing the idealised or sensual portrait of feminine beauty perfected by the great colourist and Venetian artist Titian during this period. Such proportionality could only be conveyed by an art that unites painting, which is artificial, with the divinely ordered mathematics, henc

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