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Trattato di miniatura, per imparare facilmente a dipingere senza maestro : e la dichiarazione di molti segreti per fare i più bei colori, colla maniera di far l'oro brunito, l'oro in conchiglie, e la vernice della China : quelli, che attendono allo studio delle fortificazioni, impareranno qui a miniare ogni sorta di pianta e di paese

Boutet, Claude, Galeazzi, Giuseppe · 1758 · In Milano : Nella stamperia di Giuseppe Galeazzi · 6 pictures

An Italian edition of Claude Boutet's practical manual on miniature painting, printed in Milan by Giuseppe Galeazzi in 1758 for amateurs teaching themselves to paint and for students of fortification who needed to colour plans and landscapes. The pictures are small letterpress woodcuts: trophies of surveying and drafting instruments heaped around armillary spheres and telescopes, a foliate initial A, and pendant tailpieces with urns and drapery, usable as spot ornament, headers and type-scale decoration.

Miniature painting · Colors · Flowers in art

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