In the history of art, Gian Paolo Lomazzo is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Gian Paolo Lomazzo as Italian painter (1538-1592).
Gian Paolo Lomazzo was born at Milan in 1538. His recorded nationality is Italy.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, artist and art historian.
His recorded movement is italian renaissance.
His best-known work is Self-portrait of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Gian Paolo Lomazzo died in 1600, aged 62. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Self-portrait of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
- Movement: Italian Renaissance
