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An idea of the perfection of painting: demonstrated from the principles of art, and by examples conformable to the observations, which Pliny and Quintilian have made upon the most celebrated pieces of the antient painters, parallel'd with some works of the most famous modern painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Julio Romano, and N. Poussin (1668)

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676, Evelyn, John, 1620-1706, Herringman, Henry, -1704 · [London] In the Savoy, printed for Henry Herringman.. · leaf 6

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