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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 92

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THE THE LIVES OF EMINENT PAINTERS. BOOK II. … Of the origin of Painting. HOUGH the authors, who havefaid any thing of the origin of Paint-ing, have differed among themfelves,they agree, however, in this, thatfhadow gave the firft occafion to thebirth of this art. Upon which Plinytells us a ftory of one Corinthia, a girl of Sicyone,who being in…

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