The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With Reflexions on the Works of the most Celebrated Masters, and of the several Schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern. Being the most perfect Work of the Kind extant. Translated from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, an essay towards an English school.
- Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709.
- Date:
- MDCCXLIV. [1744]
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About this work
Also known as
Abrégé de la vie des peintres. English
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Charles Marsh, at Cicero's Head in Round-Court in the Strand, MDCCXLIV. [1744]
Physical description
[18],430p. ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC T122836
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.