Painting illustrated in three diallogues : containing some choice observations upon the art. Together with the lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo. With an explanation of the difficult terms.

William Aglionby

Date:: 1685

Credit: Painting illustrated in three diallogues : containing some choice observations upon the art. Together with the lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo. With an explanation of the difficult terms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$9$ General Painter, fuch as Raphael and - fome others were, is a moft extraor¬ dinary fort of Man ; it being necef- fary he fhould not only have a Ge¬ nius and Spirit infufed from above, but alfo> that he be fraught with all the beft part of acquired Know- ledg here below , and I do no lon¬ ger wonder now, that we have fo few of fuch Tranfcendent Artifts. Traveller. \ — * , The World here in our Northern Cli¬ mates has a Notion of Painters little no- bier than of Joynersand Carpenters, or any other Mechanick, thinking that thm Artis nothing but the daubing a few Co¬ lours upon a Cloth, and believing that no - thing more ought to be expected from them at be ft, but the making a like figure of an] Bo~ djs Face. Which$