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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. Through a spirited conversation among six protagonists, Gilio grapples with a host of issues, from the relationship between poetry and painting, to the function of religious images, to the effects such images have on viewers. The primary focus is the proper representation of history, especially sacred history, and Michelangelo's Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel is the exemplary case. Michelangelo's painting is both praised and condemned as an example of the possibilities and limits of art. Although Gilio's dialogue is often used to point out the Roman Catholic Church's more controlling view of art and artists, the unabridged text--here translated into English in full for the first time--reveals the nuanced and provisional debates about how subject matter should be represented in this crucial period--Cover page 4.

art theory --- Aesthetics of art --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Painting --- Painting, Italian --- Painting, Renaissance --- Kritik --- Ästhetik --- Malerei --- Gilio, Giovanni Andrea --- Geschichte 1564 --- Italien --- Painting, Italian. --- Kritik. --- Ästhetik. --- Malerei. --- Italien. --- Ästhetik. --- Italian painting --- Gilio, Giovanni Andrea,