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Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters ornaments critical convictionGiovanni Andrea Gilio Edited by Michael Bury, Lucinda Byatt, and Carol M. Richardson Translated by Michael Bury and Lucinda Byatt Giovanni Andrea Gilios 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. Relatively little