The principles of painting under the heads of anatomy ... unity, etc. :
in which is contained, an account of the Athenian, Roman, Venetian and Flemish schools : to which is added, the balance of painters, being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art : of singular use to those who would form an idea of the value of paintings and pictures /
written originally in French by Mons. Du Piles, author of The lives of the painters and now first translated into English, by a painter.

Description

Main Author

Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709.

Related Names

Mynde, James, 1702-1771, engraver.
Osborn, John, -1775, publisher.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden Ball, in Pater-noster Row, 1743.

Subjects

1743.
Painting > Painting / Technique.
Painting.
Painters.
Painters > Painters / Early works to 1800.
Painting > Painting / Technique > Painting / Technique / Early works to 1800.
Painting > Painting / Early works to 1800.
Engravings > Engravings / England > Engravings / England / London > Engravings / England / London / 1743.
Early works.

Note

"A catalogue of the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection, in the four principal parts of painting; supposing absolute perfection to be divided into twenty degrees or parts": p. 297-300.
Plates signed: J. Mynde sc.
Includes index.

Physical Description

xii, 300, [8] pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

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