About For Books A Treatise of Painting (Classic Reprint) Complete

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Excerpt from A Treatise of Painting The 'province of a Painter, an our oau thor hao fix'd it: 'boundary, feenzr too wide and fpaciou/j to have been ever difcharged in it: full Extent, hy any Man hut hint/elf: The Management of the 'pencil, and the mixture of C olourc, with the Knowledge of 'perfpefiive, and a bahit of @efigning, wherewith nzo 'painteri foeni to content thenzfelver, make hat a part of the a/irt, a: under/toad hy Leonardo. To thefe he calls in the e i ance of other o rti eanatonzy, Opticlet, Meteorology, Mecha niolet, &c. Searching attentively into the Power: of Nature, in order to form an p rt that may imitate her; and from the 'depthr of 'philofophy, drawing Mean: for the improvement of Painting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."