Pomponio Gaurico
Pomponio Gaurico (Latin: Pomponius Gauricus; 1481 or 1482 – c. 1530) was an Italian humanist and art theorist of the Renaissance.[1]
Biography
Pomponio Gaurico was born at Gauro di Giffoni, the son of Bernardino and Cerelia. He probably followed his father in his frequent travels. In 1498, he was in Barletta from where he embarked for Constantinople. From 1501, he studied with his brother, the astrologer Luca Gaurico in Padua. From 1502, he emerged as an editor and translator of ancient literature. In 1504, he published his Latin translation of Ammonius Hermiae's commentary on the Isagoge of the Neoplatonist Porphyrios, an introduction to Aristotle's Categories, appeared in Venice, reprinted several times in the course of the 16th century.
In December of 1504 he published De sculptura, in which he reflects on the rediscovery of central perspective in painting, while at the same time valorizing sculpture, which other authors considered inferior to painting. For Gaurico, sculpture is the umbrella term for all visual arts; Gaurico established graphic art as a basic scientific procedure that is a mandatory prerequisite for the practice of all visual arts.[2]
Works
- De sculptura: 1504, edited by André Chastel & Robert Klein. Genève: Droz, 1969.
Notes
- ↑ Bacchelli, Franco (1999). "Gaurico, Pomponio". In: Mario Caravale, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). 52. Gambacorta–Gelasio II. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 705–07.
- ↑ Krech, Hartmut (1989). Ein Bild der Welt. Die Voraussetzungen der anthropologischen Photographie. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag, pp. 51–58.
References
- Klein, Robert (1979). "Pomponius Gauricus on Perspective." In: Form and Meaning: Essays on the Renaissance and Modern Art. New York: Viking Press.
- Percopo, Ernesto (1891-93). "Pomponio Gaurico, Umanista Napoletano," Atti della Reale Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti, Vol. XVI, pp. 145–261.
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