A Treatise on Painting
Contributors: John Francis Rigaud (Translator)
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: January 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780486441559
Subjects: Art techniques & materials; High Renaissance (c 1500-1530); Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Technique; Drawing; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Techniques - General; Techniques - Painting; Art / Painting; Early works to 1800; Painting
First sentence: THE young student should, in the first place, require a knowledge of perspective, to enable him to give to every object its proper dimensions: after which, it is requisite that he be under the care of an able master, to accustom him, by degrees, to a good style of drawing the parts.