(b Milan, 26 April 1538; d Milan, 13 Feb 1600). Italian writer, painter and draughtsman. He is best known for his writings, which include metaphysical discussions of the philosophy of artistic creation at levels of complexity to rival those from any period. He was a conspicuous figure in artistic and intellectual circles in northern Italy and a painter of some reputation beyond Milan, but those of his works that survive do not suggest a talent of a higher order than that of a skilled late Mannerist working in an eclectic version of the Lombard style.

• Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo
  • Milan, §II, 3: Art life and organization, 1500–1714
  • Music and art, §2: 17th and 18th centuries
  • personal collection
    • Figino, Ambrogio
  • works
    • Contrapposto
  • writings
    • Decorum
    • Disegno e colore, §1: 16th-century Italy: origins of the controversy
    • Dürer Renaissance, §1: Literary origins
    • Genre, §3: The 16th century
    • Gesture, §1: Expressive gestures
    • Giambologna, §I, 2: Statues, statue groups and fountains
    • Istoria
    • Italy, §XVII, 1: Historiography, 14th–16th centuries
    • Landscape painting: 1. Introduction
    • Light, §4(i): History of light in Western painting, 13th–16th centuries
    • Mannerism, §4: Iconography and theory
    • Musical instruments, §1(ii)(a): Western, 16th century to mid-20th: Keyboard instruments
    • Mythological painting and sculpture, §3: The Renaissance, c 1400–c 1595
    • Perspective, §III, 3: Non-linear: 16th–17th centuries
    • Treatise, §II, 3: Painting, 15th and 16th centuries: Renaissance and Mannerism
    • Ut pictura poesis, §2: The Renaissance
    • translated
      • Disegno e colore, §3: 17th–19th-century England and France
      • Hilliard: (1) Nicholas Hilliard, §2: The Arte of Limning
      • Oxford, §2(ii): Art life and organization, after c 1536
      • Pader, Hilaire
      • Treatise, §II, 4: Painting, 17th and 18th centuries: Baroque and Neo-classicism