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1. The art of painting : in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates : and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters : and their perfections and oversights laid open / by Gerard de Lairesse ; translated by John Frederick Fritsch.

The art of painting : in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates : and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters : and their perfections and oversights laid open / by Gerard de Lairesse ; translated by John Frederick Fritsch.
Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[20], 504 p., [71] leaves of plates : ill. (some folded) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.

Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, et des autres arts qui en dependent : avec un dictionnaire des termes propres à chacun de ces arts.
Creator:
Félibien, André, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619–1695
Date:
MDCLXXVI [1676]
Physical Description:
[24], 795, [1] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming, which teacheth the order in drawing & tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes ... never put in printe before this time.

A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming, which teacheth the order in drawing & tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes ... never put in printe before this time.
Date:
1573
Physical Description:
xii l. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissemens historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent. Ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes.

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Creator:
Janneck, Franz Christoph
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
1 p.., 368, [14] p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

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Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
1706
Physical Description:
480 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Idea del tempio della pittura di Gio. Paolo Lomazzo pittore. Nella quale egli discorre dell'origine, & fondamento delle cose contenute nel suo trattato dell'arte della pittura ...

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Creator:
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600
Date:
[1590]
Physical Description:
16 p.., 168 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. L'art de peindre : poëme : avec des réflexions sur les différentes parties de la peinture / par M. Watelet, associé libre de l'Académie Royale de peinture & de sculpture.

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Creator:
Watelet, Claude-Henri, 1718–1786
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 144 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Choice observations upon the art of painting : together with Vasari's Lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms.

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Creator:
Aglionby, William, d. 1705
Date:
1719
Physical Description:
[36], 374 [i.e. 387], [2] p. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs ... Tr. from the Italian, pub. by the Chevr. Don Joseph Nicholas d'Azara ...

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Creator:
Mengs, Anton Raphael, 1728–1779
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An essay on painting. Written in Italian by Count Algarotti, F.R.S., F.S.A.

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Creator:
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712–1764
Date:
1764
Physical Description:
viii, 190 p, [1] l. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A treatise of painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; translated from the original Italian ... ; to which is prefix'd, the author's life ... from the last edition of the French.

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Creator:
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
Date:
1721
Physical Description:
[16], 189, [19] p., [36] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The art of painting: by C. A. Du Fresnoy: with remarks: tr. into English, with an original preface, containing a parallel between painting and poetry: by Mr. Dryden. As also a short account of the most eminent painters, both ancient and modern: by R. G. ...

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Creator:
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668
Date:
1716
Physical Description:
8 p. l., lxviii, [4], 397, [7] p. 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Ricerche sopra le bellezze della pittura e sul merito de' piu celebri pittori antichi e moderni del signor Daniel Webb. Opera tradotta in Italiano da una dama veneta.

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Creator:
Webb, Daniel, 1718 or 19–1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
xx, 220 p. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A treatise on painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; translated from the original Italian ; illustrated with a great number of cuts ; to which is added the life of the author, and a portrait from a picture in the Duke of Tuscany's gallery at Florence.

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Creator:
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[2], xii, 189, [19] p., [30] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Manière de bien juger des ouvrages de peinture. Par feu M. l'Abbé Laugier, mise au jour, & augmentée de plusieurs notes intéressantes par M. ***.

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Creator:
Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711–1769
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
xii, 274, [2] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts