The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 181
, which are fo confounding,and caufe fuch a Variance between what is antique and modern, we feechiefly in the Composition of Hiftories, Fables, Emblems, and fuchlike; in which both (yet the Modern moft) are blended together. Congruity and Suitablenefs in the Compofition of Hiftories are trueTokens… … Chap. i. Of Things Antique and Modern. 117 Decorum and Energy of the Compofttion? He therefore is efteemed aprudent Matter, who not only gives every thing its proper Colours, hitalfo its due ExpreJJion, pure and uncorrupted. Thus we fee that greatMatters, who are got to that Perfection, do not…
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