Il Figino, overo, Del fine della pittura : dialogo

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Label

Il Figino, overo, Del fine della pittura : dialogo

Title remainder

dialogo

Statement of responsibility

del reverendo padre D. Gregorio Comanini, canon[ico] regolare Lateranense ; ove quistionandosi se il fine della pittura sia l'utile overo il diletto, si tratta dell'uso di quella nel Cristianesimo, e si mostra qual sia imitatore più perfetto, e che più diletti il pittore overo il poeta

Title variation

Del fine della pittura

Creator

• Comanini, Gregorio, -1608

Contributor

• Osanna, Francesco, fl. 1578-1608

Printer

• Osanna, Francesco, fl. 1578-1608

Subject

• Painting -- Early works to 1800
• Arts -- Early works to 1800
• Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

ita

Summary

Treatise on the proper mission of art, written in the form of a dialogue.

Member of

• Figino, overo, del fine della pittura

Cataloging source

CaQMCCA

Citation location within source

• p. 192
• II:174
• CNCE 12855

Citation source

• BM STC Italian, 1465-1600
• Brunet
• EDIT 16

Index

index present

LC call number

ND1130

LC item number

.C559 1591

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

The two main characters are the Abbot Martinengo, Guazzo, an artistic patron, and Figino, a Milanese painter, who debate whether the aim of painting is pleasure or utility. They finally agree that pleasure is only of secondary importance, and that art as a useful activity belongs to the Church, which should direct it towards the support of religion. Of particular interest is the 25-page discussion on the Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the "pittore fantastico," who is now finding new admirers; Arcimboldo's musical invention of the chromatic clavicembalo is also discussed