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    A critical essay on oil-painting proving that the art of painting in oil was known before the pretended discovery of John and Hubert van Eyck; to which are added, Theophilus De arte pingendi Eraclius De artibus Romanorum. And a review of Farinator's Lumen animæ, by R.E. Raspe.

    Rudolf Erich Raspe | Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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    An historical essay on the original of painting Wherein is exhibited I. Some probabilities and pretentions to its invention before the flood. II. Its commencement again after the flood, and its Progress through several Nations to the Time of Cimabue, An. 1276. By Henry Bell, Architect, late of Lynn-Regis, Norfolk, Esq;.

    Bell, Henry, 1647-1711. | Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
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