Francisco de Holanda e a arte da pintura

Abstract

This Work intends to analyze the treatise of art Da Pintura Antiga written by the portuguese Francisco de Holanda in the 30s of the XVI century. In this work Holanda studied the art of painting, its origins and its goals, who is the painter and how it should be your training and what precepts to be observed by executing a painting. This dissertation was written from the research of the relationship between Holanda and other treatises authors of art of the period – especially Alberti and Gaurico – and the antiquity – Plínio and Vitruvio. We also evaluate the relations between Holanda and the humanist circle of Évora and the circle frequented by Holanda when their stay in Rome, which resulted in the writing of Da Pintura Antiga.