The Art of Painting ... Translated Into English Verse by W. Mason ... With Annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Lat. & Eng. (Appendix.-The Sentiments of C. A. D. on the Works of the ... Best Painters of the Two Last Ages.-The Preface of Mr Dryden to His Translation [of the Same Work], Containing a Parallel Between Poetry and Painting. Epistle [in Verse] of Mr Pope to Mr Jervas.-A Chronological List of Painters by T. Gray.) [Elegy on the Death of Sir J. Reynolds, by C. Burney; in MS.]


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The Art of Painting


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De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668)


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Edition commentée de ce poème latin de 549 vers sur l'art de la peinture qui connut un succès considérable aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.




The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting: The art of painting, of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy; translated into English verse by William Mason, with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds [with original text subjoined, and with a life of Du Fresnoy]. The sentiments of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, on the works of the principal and best painters of the last two ages. The preface of Mr. Dryden to his translation, containing a parallel between poetry and painting. Epistle of Mr. Pope to Mr. Jervass. A chronological list of painters, from the revival of the art to the beginning of the present century [by Thomas Gray]. Index


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Painting and Reality


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A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Étienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings and its relation to the natural order. Drawing on insights from the writings of great painters—from Leonardo, Reynolds, and Constable to Mondrian and Klee—Gilson shows how painting is foreign to the order of language and knowledge. Painting, he argues, seeks to add new beings to nature, not to represent those that already exist. For this reason, we must distinguish it from another art, that of picturing, which seeks to produce images of actual or possible beings. Though pictures play an important part in human life, they do not belong in the art of painting. Through this distinction, Gilson sheds new light on the evolution of modern painting. A magisterial work of scholarship by an acclaimed historian of philosophy, Painting and Reality features paintings from both classical and modern schools, and includes extended selections from the writings of Reynolds, Delacroix, Gris, Gill, and Ozenfant.




The Art of Painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy. Translated Into English Verse by William Mason, M.A. with Annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds,


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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T064461 Half-title: 'Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy's art of painting translated into English verse'. Dublin: printed for Messrs. Whitestone, Wilson, Moncrieffe, Walker, Jenkin, White, Byrne, and Cash, 1783. xxi, [3],221, [1]p.; 8°