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 586
w, according to the prefent State of the Painters and Times, theycan have other Things for the fame Price, and the Painter making nogreat Matter of it, they lay hold of the Opportunity, caufing thewhole Cieling to be filled with Hiftories and Emblems, whether theybe fuitable or not. We fee, that… … 4?o Of the Tainting of Book IX. Figures, Landskips, Sea-fights, Battles, &c. without any forefhorten-jng, as if painted on an upright Wall; and others which were repre-fenced from underneath more or lefs, and yet without foreftiorten-incr • as alfo fome, which forelhortened, but had no Point of…
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