The Works of Jonathan Richardson: Containing I. The Theory of Painting. ... A New Edition, Corrected, with the Additions of An Essay on the Knowledge of Prints, and Cautions to Collectors. Ornamented with Portraits ...Printed at Strawberry-Hill [i.e. London] Sold by B. White and Son; T. and J. Egerton; J. Debrett; R. Faulder, and W. Miller; [and 3 others in London], 1792 - Engraving - 282 pages |
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... excellent things of all kinds , poetry , mufic , learning , religion , & c . Thus painters , as well as hiftorians , poets , philofophers , divines , & c . confpire in their feveral ways to be ferviceable to mankind ; but not with an ...
... excellent things of all kinds , poetry , mufic , learning , religion , & c . Thus painters , as well as hiftorians , poets , philofophers , divines , & c . confpire in their feveral ways to be ferviceable to mankind ; but not with an ...
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... excellent masters in painting and sculpture , ancient and modern ; for though fome few have gone vaft lengths in the art by the ftrength of their own genius , without foreign affiftance , these are prodigies , the like success is not ...
... excellent masters in painting and sculpture , ancient and modern ; for though fome few have gone vaft lengths in the art by the ftrength of their own genius , without foreign affiftance , these are prodigies , the like success is not ...
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... excellent painter , is to be an excellent man ; and these united make a character that would fhine even in a better world than this . But as a picture may be efteemed a good and a valuable one , in which all the good qualities of a ...
... excellent painter , is to be an excellent man ; and these united make a character that would fhine even in a better world than this . But as a picture may be efteemed a good and a valuable one , in which all the good qualities of a ...
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... excellent painters in Flanders ; but when Van - Dyck came hither he brought face - painting to us ; ever fince which time , that is for above fourscore years , England has excelled all the world in that great branch of the art , and ...
... excellent painters in Flanders ; but when Van - Dyck came hither he brought face - painting to us ; ever fince which time , that is for above fourscore years , England has excelled all the world in that great branch of the art , and ...
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... excellent in them ; as the Borgognone for battles , Michelangelo the Battaglia and Campadoglio for fruit ; Father Segers , Mario del Fiori , and Baptift for flowers ; Salvator Rofa , Claude Lorrain , and Gasper Pouffin for landscapes ...
... excellent in them ; as the Borgognone for battles , Michelangelo the Battaglia and Campadoglio for fruit ; Father Segers , Mario del Fiori , and Baptift for flowers ; Salvator Rofa , Claude Lorrain , and Gasper Pouffin for landscapes ...
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