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 507
he would he univerfal, muft needsunderftand Architecture and Statuary; becaufe he will otherwife be ata Nonplus in feme Things; he ought even to be as knowing as anArchitect, and how to order a good Building, tho tis an Architectsdaily Practice, and but a Part of the Painters. -^cnitect s >Tis… … Chap. i. Of Architecture. tf§ the firft Wonder of the Worlds and thereby obtained the Laurel andPalm of Fame. Writers fay,, that the Babylonians were the fir ft, and after them theEgyptians, Greeks and Romans, who brought it to Perfection j till inthe Emperor Augufluss Time, it arrived at its…
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