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 251
agement; thePrincipal ought always to precede, and the other to be fubfervient toit: In Landskip the immoveable Objecls predominate, and the moveableones ferve only for Ornament; contrarily, in an Ordonnance the Figuresare firft difpojed, and then the By-works; for when we fay, that an up-right…
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