Paolo Pino (active between 1534 and 1565)
• Was an Italian painter and art writer.
• He was born in Venice.
• A student of Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo.
• He wrote the "Dialogo di pittura" (1548), which affirmed the supremacy of the Venetian School over the Florentine School and anticipated some aspects of the Mannerist style.
• His Dialogo di pittura, (Dialog on Painting) contains strong arguments for a more liberal and poetic form of art, as compared to the scientific naturalism emerging of the time.
• While he was still in agreement that the “science” of painting, notably perspective, was important, he said, “…a picture is really poetry, that is, invention, which makes appear that which is not.”
• Pino was following the tradition of Renaissance polymaths, like Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472).
