From drawing and painting to the colorful flames in the scene – Plínio, Alberti and Serlio: ornato and amplification of the discourse on architecture, based on the qualifications Dei lumi artificiali delle scene

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the text Dei lumi artificiali delle scene, composed in the italian sixteenth century, literary work of the preceptor, Sebastiano Serlio, which deals of subjects related to architecture from the painter’s proposition. In the distinction of the arts, the prescription of the lume for the disegno visivo will follow the precepts of the treaty Da Pintura from Alberti. In the growing of the rhetorical construction, this proposition is supplanted when it comes to the lumi of the scena, that is, “lights that can be seen”,obtained by fire, that fall on colored paints, as shapes of material ornaments, amplify the relief and gi ve to se e volumes surpassing, by emulation, the natural things themselves