Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters

$55.00 at The Getty Museum.

Giovanni Andrea GilioEdited by Michael Bury, Lucinda Byatt, and Carol M. RichardsonTranslated by Michael Bury and Lucinda Byatt Giovanni Andrea Gilio’s Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key primary source for the discussion of the reform of art as it unfolded at the time of the Council of Trent and the Catholic Reformation. Relatively little is known about Gilio himself, a cleric from Fabriano, Italy…