Original Treatises: Dating from the Xiith to Xviiith Centuries on the Arts of Painting, in Oil, Miniature, Mosaic, and on Glass; Of Gilding, Dyeing, and the Preparation of Colours and Artificial Gems; Preceded by a General Introduction; With Translations
Original Treatises: Dating from the Xiith to Xviiith Centuries on the Arts of Painting, in Oil, Miniature, Mosaic, and on Glass; Of Gilding, Dyeing, and the Preparation of Colours and Artificial Gems; Preceded by a General Introduction; With Translations,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... BRUSSELS MANUSCRIPT, ENTITLED "RECUEUIL DES ESSAIES DES MERVEILLES DE LA PEINTURE." PIERRE LEBRUN, PAINTER, 1635. BRUSSELS MANUSCRIPT. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. The following pages are copied from the commencement of a MS., preserved in the Public Library at Brussels, numbered 15,552, written in 1635 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... BRUSSELS MANUSCRIPT, ENTITLED "RECUEUIL DES ESSAIES DES MERVEILLES DE LA PEINTURE." PIERRE LEBRUN, PAINTER, 1635. BRUSSELS MANUSCRIPT. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. The following pages are copied from the commencement of a MS., preserved in the Public Library at Brussels, numbered 15,552, written in 1635 by Pierre Le Brun, a painter. The MS. is in small octavo, the writing extremely small and difficult to read, and the ink very pale. It appears to have been intended for publication, as it contains many drawings. The part of the MS. uncopied treats of Sculpture, Architecture, and Perspective. It appears from the MS. that Pierre Le Brun was contemporary with the Carracci, with Rubens, Laurens Dubry the Fleming, and Vouet; and the scattered notices he has given relative to painting in oil must be considered as indications of the practice of this art in France, or rather at Paris, during the middle of the seventeenth century. The manner in which the author speaks of contemporary artists shows that he was living at Paris when the MS. was written. The object of the author in writing the treatise seems to have been to give amateurs such a knowledge of the mechanical parts of the art, and of technical terms, as would enable them to speak on the subject of painting with propriety, and without incurring ridicule. In the first chapter, therefore, he describes the implements used in the mechanical part of the art, and then recapitulates a number of technical expressions, some few of which he explains, especially those relating to the light in which a picture should be viewed. This part of the work bears much resemblance to the Treatise of Bulengerus, De Pictura, Plastice, et Statuaria, lib. ii. cap. ii., a work which must have obtained some reputation, ...
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All Editions of Original Treatises: Dating from the Xiith to Xviiith Centuries on the Arts of Painting, in Oil, Miniature, Mosaic, and on Glass; Of Gilding, Dyeing, and the Preparation of Colours and Artificial Gems; Preceded by a General Introduction; With Translations,
