The art of painting, and the lives of the painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints: With Reflections on the Works of the most Celebrated Painters, and of the several Schools of Europe, as well Ancient as Modern. Being the Newest, and most perfect Work of the Kind extant. Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, an essay towards an English-School, With the Lives and Characters of above 100 Painters.
- Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709.
- Date:
- 1706
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About this work
Also known as
Abrégé de la vie des peintres. English
Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1706.
Physical description
[16],480,[8]p. ; 80.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T10568
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.