Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer’s 'Four Books on Human Proportion'
"In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that e...
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| description | "In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, covering topics that were seen as central to arts education, connoisseurship, patronage, and the wider appreciation of the studia humanitatis in general.
The text centres on the relationships between beauty and proportion, macrocosm and microcosm: relationships that were not only essential to the visual arts in the early modern era, but that cut across a range of disciplines – music, physiognomics and humoral readings, astronomy, astrology and cosmology, theology and philosophy, even mnemonics and poetry. In his version of the text, Gallucci expanded the educational potential of the treatise by adding a Preface, a Life of Dürer, and a Fifth Book providing a philosophical framework within which to interpret Dürer’s previous sections.
This translation is the first to make these original contributions by Gallucci accessible to an English-speaking audience. Gallucci’s contributions illuminate the significance of symmetry and proportion in the contemporary education of the early modern era, informing our understanding of the intellectual history of this period, and the development of art theory and criticism. This is a valuable resource to early modern scholars and students alike, especially those specialising in history of art, philosophy, history of science, and poetry." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-271512025-06-11T05:18:59Z Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer’s 'Four Books on Human Proportion' Hutson, James Giovanni Paolo Gallucci; Albrecht Dürer; Four Books on Human Proportion; arts education; relationships between beauty and proportion; Giovanni Paolo Gallucci Albrecht Dürer Four Books on Human Proportion arts education relationships between beauty and proportion thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6R Styles (R)::6RC Renaissance style thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology "In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, covering topics that were seen as central to arts education, connoisseurship, patronage, and the wider appreciation of the studia humanitatis in general. The text centres on the relationships between beauty and proportion, macrocosm and microcosm: relationships that were not only essential to the visual arts in the early modern era, but that cut across a range of disciplines – music, physiognomics and humoral readings, astronomy, astrology and cosmology, theology and philosophy, even mnemonics and poetry. In his version of the text, Gallucci expanded the educational potential of the treatise by adding a Preface, a Life of Dürer, and a Fifth Book providing a philosophical framework within which to interpret Dürer’s previous sections. This translation is the first to make these original contributions by Gallucci accessible to an English-speaking audience. Gallucci’s contributions illuminate the significance of symmetry and proportion in the contemporary education of the early modern era, informing our understanding of the intellectual history of this period, and the development of art theory and criticism. This is a valuable resource to early modern scholars and students alike, especially those specialising in history of art, philosophy, history of science, and poetry." 2021-02-10T13:10:32Z 2021-02-10T13:10:32Z 2020-04-15T09:12:33Z 2020 book OCN: 1150165536 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37214 9781783748877 9781783748884 9781783748600 9781783748617 9781783748624 9781783748617 9781783748624 9781783748877 9781783748884 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27151 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37214/1/9781783748891.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37214/1/9781783748891.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37214/1/9781783748891.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37214/1/9781783748891.pdf Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0198 10.11647/OBP.0198 b014b543-78bd-4c3b-bc71-b68e2ac855b9 9781783748877 9781783748884 9781783748600 9781783748617 9781783748624 9781783748617 9781783748624 9781783748877 9781783748884 ScholarLed 226 open access |
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