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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60499	The art of painting according to the theory and practise of the best Italian, French, and Germane masters Treating of the antiquity of painting. The reputation it always had. The characters of several masters. Proportion. Action and passion. The effects of light. Perspective. Draught. Colouring. Ordonnance. Far more compleat and compendious then hath yet been publisht by any, antient or modern. The second edition. By M.S. gent.	[Smith, Marshall, fl. 1693].	1693 (1693)	Wing S4129A; ESTC R219107	65,543	104

and Horse into a Bottomless Gulff and the Three Decii the Father in the Roman Warr the Son in the Tuscane and the Nephew in the Battle against Pyrrbus all which ran into certain and Eminent Death for the good of their Country And for Military Discipline Posthumus the Dictator who put his own Son to Death for getting a Conquest over his Enemies by breaking his Ranks with innumerable more Emblems of Divers Vertues and pieces of Gallantry Certainly these Painted with a great Spirit Passion and Gracefull Action must be more Instructive and Exciting then the most Rhetoricall Herangue It is the most Ingenuous Art and greatly assisting to Natural Philosophy since with the greatest Scrutiny it examines into the very Entity of Nature It Argues in the Masters the Finest and Sublimest Invention to Express many Times the most Heroick Actions in the World with greater Magnanimity and Beauty then the Celebrated Actors were possessed with And those great Men whose Works have been held in such Admiration both by the greatest Judgments as well as the Noblest Quality it shews in them Souls Capacitated and Adapted for such high Actions as themselves have Exprest so to the Life for there must be a Concretion of Idea's into a Form in the Minde before Action is produc'd of Mindes to Replete their works are sufficient Evidence CAP. II. Of the Antiquity of Painting THE Omnipotent whose Divine Pencel Drew all these Wonders which continually present themselves to our Admiration and which Man by an Homaeomere endeavours to imitate Challenges the Prerogative of this Art to himself Job 39. 13. and as his peculiar Gift bestow'd it on Bezaleel and Aholiah Exodus 31. whom he fil'd with his spirit in Wisdome and Understanding in Knowledge to finde out curious Works to Carve c. which we shall shew hereafter to be the same with Painting in Essence but exceeded by it in Perfection Minus King of the Assyrians as History Reports having Celebrated the Obsequies of his Father Belus First King of Babilon to Mitigate part of the sorrow for his Fathers Death and to restore in some measure such a loss caused his Image to be Carv'd After the Deluge Prometheus Son of Japhet Invented Plastick and was in such Request with the Arcadians being of a Pregnant Witt and sollid Wisdom that he brought the Rude and Barbarous People into civil Conversation he added Artificiall Motion to his Images whence the Poets since have made their Fictions After this the Art came to be better known and with the growing Art Honour to the Inventors increas'd therefore Gyges the Lydian amongst the Egiptians Pyrrus amongst the Grecians and Polygnotus the Athenian amongst the Corinthians were highly Valued as the first amongst them that found out Painting They first began in Black and White Plin. lib. 35. cap. 1 2 3. c. the Authors Ardices the Corinthian and Telephanus the Sicyonian then Cleophantes the Corinthian brought up the use of Colours though principally but One whence the Historiographers call'd it Monochroma Apollodorus afterwards the Athenian began the use of the Pencell as likewise Cumanus the Athenian Cimon Cleondus added much Perfection by Fore-shortning after Paneus added farther Perfection Inventing the Art of Drawing by the Life Parrhasius the Ephesian did farther adorn it as likewise Zeuxes who brought up the manner of Shaddowing Appelles added the last Perfection by the help of Geometry and Arithmetick without which as his Master Pamphilus would say no Man could prove a Painter and Bernard Lovinus would say a Painter without Perspective was like a Doctor without Grammer And indeed it is a Compound of many Arts as Geomitry Architecture Arithmetick Perspective c. for a Painter cannot perform without Lines Superficies Profunditys Thickness and Geometricall Figures Nor can Churches Pallaces Amphitheaters Bridges Ports and other Buildings be Represented without Skill in Architecture Nor without Arithmetick can he Understand the Proportion of Mans Body to take it in any sise or the Proportion of other Things either Artificiall or Naturall And without a good Judgment in Perspective the work will be full of Faults it must be us'd in all Fore-shortnings all Distances in Highths c. nay without a Carefull Disposal of the Colours according to Perspective a simple Convex will be Defective in its Orbicularity but we shall discourse of Perspective by it self So sacred have the Memorys of the Inventers of this Art been of our Progenitors that they have carefully Transmitted them down to us and Doubtless will be to all Posterity And although not only by diverse Contingences but the necessity of Fate is such that the Formation of one Species must be through the Destruction of another that there may be a Circulation to the Termination of Time by Consequence the Materials of their Art have perished yet such hath been the Care of Fame over the Eldest Sons of Art that she hath writ their Names on the Adamantine Rock beyond the Power of the Cruel and Remorsless Jaws of Time with Teeth of Iron to Devour CAP. III. The Reputation Painting hath had in the World IT is sufficiently Known in what Esteem Painting hath been amongst the Aegyptians under which they Communicated all their Natural and Morall Philosophy it was their Treasury where they Accumulated all their Arts and Sciences For since the Power-Memorative could not contain all the Similitudes and Idea's which by the Labour of the most Ingenious Infinite in Possibility were Produc'd here they Reserv'd all the Occult Riches of their Misticall Knowledge to all succeeding Ages From thence in Process of time hath been Transmitted down to us considerable Benefit in Philosophy by the Hands of Plato Pythagoras and other Philosophers who sayl'd to Aegypt to transport it thence And though some of their Hieroglyphicks appear Ampfractnous to us which doubtless is from their long disuse yet some I have seen not so Aenigmaticall but might be easily Understood and as before was hinted they had the Advantage hereby to speak in all Languages and so of their most precious Wealth were Eleimosynary to the whole World In imitation of them the Ancient Romans set up Emblems in Publick places of divers Animals under which their Philosophycal Misteries were couched and from Hieroglyphicks and Emblems they proceeded to Paint the Famous Actions of Worthy Men that through the Emulation of their Actions they might Excite the Young Noble Spirits to like Performances Nor was this Art only Honoured by the Noble Use made of it in this manner but likewise by the Study and Practice therein by those of the greatest Quality as also by the vast Sums paid for severall pieces for the Encouragment of the Artists as well as for the future Profit and Pleasure thereby to themselves and Posterity We reade of Francis King of France and first of that Name that he Practis'd in it to a great Perfection as likewise Charles Immanuell Duke of Savoy who was well Read in all Heroicall Vertues as well as in the Liberall