Painting illustrated in three diallogues, containing some choice observations upon the art. Together with the Lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo. With an explanation of the difficult terms
William Aglionby's dialogues on painting with lives of the painters drawn from Vasari, printed in London in 1685 by J. Gain for the author and aimed at English gentlemen and connoisseurs learning the terms of Italian art. The ornament is woodcut: square initials set in a bower of laurel and drapery with a painter's palette, brushes, dividers and a bearded mask below, plus a headpiece of ruins, scaffolding and a motto banderole usable as decorated capitals, borders and rules.
