Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538-1600)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Born in Milan from a family emigrated from the town of Lomazzo.
• His early training was with Giovan Battista della Cerva in Milan.
• He painted a large Allegory of the Lenten Feast for San Agostino in Piacenza (1567).
• Other works by his hand include an elaborate dome with Glory of Angels for the Capella Foppa in San Marco in Milan, and the Fall of Simon Magus in the wall of the chapel.
• He was admired as an artist and in 1562 was depicted on a medallion by Annibale Fontana which described him as having been introduced by Mercury to Fortune.
• Lomazzo became blind in 1571, and turned to writing, producing two complex treatises that are milestones in the development of art criticism.
• His first work, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura (1584) is in part a guide to contemporary concepts of decorum.
• Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Cristoforo Ciocca, and Girolamo Ciocca were his pupils.
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