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Bringing Mannerist Art Theory to England: Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’arte della pittura… “Englished” by Richard Haydocke (1598)

When Richard Haydocke’s translation of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’arte della pittura… was published in 1598, England was regarded as a backwater of the European art world. Though the Tudor monarchs had begun to develop their patronage of artists to … Continue reading

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