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'Sculpture, metalwork'
Date: 1981-1982Reference: WA/HMM/TR/Abc/C.4/38Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
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The principles of painting, under the heads of anatomy attitude accident Architecture Composition Claro-Obscuro Contrast Colouring Design Disposition Draperies Expression Harmony History Invention Landskip Lights Proportion Passion Portraiture Sculpture Style Truth Unity, &c. 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.
Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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Greek & Roman sculpture / by A. Furtwängler & H.L. Urlichs; translated by Horace Taylor.
Furtwängler, Adolf, 1853-1907.Date: 1914- Digital Images
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Greek and Roman sculpture in the Wellcome Collection
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The classical monument : reflections on the connection between morality and art in Greek and Roman sculpture / Philipp Fehl.
Fehl, Philipp PDate: 1972