Treatise on Painting
Translated by John Francis Rigaud
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The opening
Chap. I.—What the young Student in Painting ought in the first Place to learn.
The young student should, in the first place, acquire 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. Next, he must study Nature, in order to confirm and fix in his mind the reason of those precepts which he has learnt. He must also bestow some time in viewing the works of various old masters, to form his eye and judgment, in order that he may be able to put in practice all that he has been taught.
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- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
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- Plate reference removed from chapter heading; the plate is not included
- Closing line 'THE END.'