Pomponius Gauricus
Pomponius Gauricus , Italian Pomponio Gaurico (* 1481 or 1482 in Gauro, a municipality in the area of Giffoni Valle Piana near Salerno ; † around 1530 ) was an Italian humanist and art theorist of the Renaissance .
From 1501 Gauricus studied together with his brother, the astrologer Luca Gaurico ( Lucas Gauricus ) in Padua . From 1502 he emerged as editor and translator of ancient literature. 1504's several times reprinted in the course of the 16th century Latin translation appeared in Venice's comments and the Ammonius Hermiae the Isagoge of the Neo-Platonist Porphyry , an introduction to Aristotle ' categories . In December of the same year 1504 he published his work De sculptura , in which he reflected the rediscovery of the central perspective in painting, but at the same time also revalued the sculpture that other authors regarded as inferior to painting.
For Gauricus, sculpture is the umbrella term for all visual arts; Gauricus establishes the graphic as a basic scientific process, which is a mandatory prerequisite for the practice of all visual arts (Krech 1989, 51–58).
Works
De sculptura
- De Sculptura (digital version of the 1542 edition)
Translations
- Isagogue - Commentary by Ammonios, Latin translation by Pomponio Gaurico , digital version of the first edition Venice 1504.
- Ammonius Hermeae: Commentaria in quinque voces Porphyrii, translated by Pomponius Gauricus; In Aristotelis categorias (extended postscript by Johannes Philoponus = CAG XIII / i), translated by Ioannes Baptista Rasarius , ed. Rainer Thiel and Charles Lohr, Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002, ISBN 3-7728-1229-5 (reprint of the Venice 1539 and Venice 1562 editions with an introduction by the modern editors).
literature
- Franco Bacchelli: Gaurico, Pomponio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 52: Gambacorta-Gelasio II. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999, pp. 705-707.
- Krech, Hartmut: A picture of the world. The requirements of anthropological photography . Constance: Hartung-Gorre Verlag 1989.
Web links
- Literature by and about Pomponius Gauricus in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gauricus, Pomponius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gaurico, Pomponio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian art theorist of the Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1482 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Giffoni Valle Piana |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1530 |