The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters : containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints : with reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern, being the most perfect work of the kind extant (1754)
Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709, Buckeridge, Bainbrigg, 1668-1733. Essay towards an English school of painting · London : Printed for T. Payne · leaf 31
proofsof it, we have endeavoured to fatisfy them in thefollowing remarks; in which both the one and theother will find, we have treated of fuch things asnaturally prefented themfelves to us, and perhapswill not be indifferent to them. The following remarks anfwer in chapters to thefeveral parts of… … CHAR The Art of P A I N T I N G. CHAP. I. REMARKS and INSTRUCTIONS on the preceding Idea. Of GENIUS. */tM S in vain for men to endeavour, with all A their might to reach the point of perfection,in the art of Painting, or any other art, if theyare not born with a particular talent for the…
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