Figures
Annibale Fontana, Bust of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, ca. 1560. Bronze. Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington.âVIII
Richard Haydocke, title page from A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, carvinge & buildinge (Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1598).âXIII
1.1 Gaudenzio Ferrari, Saints Agabio and Paul, preparatory cartoon for the Novara Polyptych, 1514â21.â23
1.2 Gaudenzio Ferrari, detail of a foreshortened angel from the vault of the Crucifixion Chapel, 1517â20.â25
1.3 Gaudenzio Ferrari, detail of a foreshortened angel from the vault of the Crucifixion Chapel, 1517â20.â25
1.4 Gaudenzio Ferrari, detail of a foreshortened angel from the vault of the Crucifixion Chapel, 1517â20.â26
2.1 Bernardino Lanino and Giovanni Battista della Cerva, Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1546.â42
2.2 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Self-Portrait, ca. 1555â65.â43
2.3 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Flight into Egypt and Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1560â65.â46
2.4 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Crucifixion, ca. 1560â65.â48
2.5 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Christ on the Cross, 1565.â50
2.6 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Agony in the Garden, ca. 1565.â51
2.7 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Allegory of the Lenten Feast, 1567.â52
2.8 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Noli me tangere, 1568.â53
2.9 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Self-Portrait as Abbot of the Accademia della Val di Blenio, ca. 1568.â54
2.10 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata with Saints Bartholomew and Bernardino, ca. 1565â70.â55
2.11 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (?), Cleopatra, ca. 1560â65.â56
2.12 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Angelâs Glory, 1570.â57
2.13 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, detail of Angelâs Glory, 1570.â57
2.14 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Foreshortened Draped Man Looking Up: Study for a Prophet, 1570.â58
2.15 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Paul, and Augustine, 1571.â59
2.16 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Agony in the Garden, 1572.â60
2.17 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdalene, 1571.â61
3.1 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Perseus and Andromeda, 1579.â71
3.2 Giovanni Battista Fontana, Perseus and Andromeda, n.d.â72
3.3 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Zanolet and Bertolina, 1579.â75
3.4 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Allegory of Lent, 1579.â76
3.5 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Eight Grotesque Heads of Olympian Deities, 1579.â78
3.6 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Castel SantâAngelo with the Girandola, 1579.â80
3.7 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Saint John the Baptist in the Desert, 1582.â82
3.8 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Scenes of the Commedia dellâArte, 1585.â84
3.9 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, detail of Scenes of the Commedia dellâArte, 1585.â85
3.10 Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1584.â87
4.1 Aurelio Luini, Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, 1570.â94
4.2 Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1499â1500.â100
4.3 Aurelio Luini, Page of Studies, including a Holy Family, ca. 1570.â101
4.4 Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Study of Three Male Heads, ca. 1590.â102
4.5 Aurelio Luini, Head of a Faun, ca. 1570â80.â104
4.6 Aurelio Luini, Allegory of Fame, ca. 1570â80.â104
4.7 Aurelio Luini, Dead Christ, ca. 1580.â105
4.8 Aurelio Luini, Venus and Cupid, ca. 1570â80.â106
4.9 Aurelio Luini, Allegory of Putti, ca. 1570â80.â107
5.1 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Camillo Procaccini, Arachne Embroidery: Loves of Neptune, 1590.â111
5.2 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Camillo Procaccini, Arachne Embroidery: Loves of Jupiter, 1590.â111
5.3 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Camillo Procaccini, detail of Tyro and Enipeus in Arachne Embroidery: Loves of Neptune, 1590.â112
5.4 Camillo Procaccini, Grotesque Male Head and Female Head, ca. 1590â93.â120
5.5 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Camillo Procaccini, detail of Aegina in Arachne Embroidery: Loves of Jupiter, 1590.â120
5.6 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Camillo Procaccini, detail of Danae in Arachne Embroidery: Loves of Jupiter, 1590â121
5.7 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Camillo Procaccini, detail of a butterfly in Arachne Embroidery: Loves of Neptune, 1590.â122
5.8 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Adriaen Collaert, The Four Continents and the Four Elements, ca. 1590â1601.â123
5.9 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Adriaen Collaert, detail of the figure of America in The Four Continents and the Four Elements, ca. 1590â1601.â124
5.10 Embroideress: Caterina Cantoni, Designer: Adriaen Collaert, detail of a monkey and the underdrawing of a butterfly in The Four Continents and the Four Elements, ca. 1590â1601.â124
6.1 Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Giovanni Angelo Annoni, 1570.â133
6.2 Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Madonna of the Serpent, 1581â83.â134
6.3 Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Coronation of the Virgin, 1583â87.â136
6.4 Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Saint Matthew and the Angel, 1587.â137
6.5 Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1590â95.â139
6.6 Girolamo Ciocca, Resurrection, 1586.â142
6.7 Girolamo Ciocca, Saint Ubaldo Frees a Possessed Woman, 1585â89.â144
6.8 Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Agony in the Garden, 1577?.â148
6.9 Girolamo Ciocca, Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1580â90.â149
6.10 Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Nativity with the Adoration of the Shepherds, 1570.â150
7.1 Galeazzo Alessi, mask, before 1572.â156
7.2 Bernardo Buontalenti, mask, ca. 1583â88.â158
7.3 Jacopo Ligozzi, Puer capite elephantino (Bologna, 1642).â158
7.4 Jacopo Ligozzi, Monstrum marinum rudimenta habitus episcopi referens (Bologna, 1642).â159
7.5 Giambologna, River God, 1577â80.â160
7.6 Giulio Mazzoni, mask, 1539.â161
7.7 Buontalenti Workshop, mask, ca. 1590.â162
7.8 Cesare Nebbia and workshop, detail of a frieze, ca. 1570.â163
7.9 Pietro Dolce, detail of a cradle decorated with grilli, ca. 1560.â166
7.10 Unknown Artist, mask (portal keystone), early seventeenth century.â168
7.11 Giovanni Vincenzo della Monica, mask (entrance portal), after 1718.â168
7.12 Unknown Artist, mask (corner decoration), first half of the seventeenth century.â169
7.13 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, mask, ca. 1629â33.â170
Maps
1 Giovanni Giorgio Settala, Theatrum orbis terrarium Ducatus Mediolanensis, 1592.âxix
2 Giacomo Franco (engraver), perspective plan of Milan, ca. 1569â80.âxx