A Treatise on the Art of Painting in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, illustrating the subject by reference to their beauties and imperfections. By Gerard de Lairesse. Revised, corrected, and accompanied with an essay, by W.M.Craig, painter to Her Majesty and the Duke and Duchess of York.
by DE LAIRESSE, Gerard
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London: Published and Sold by Edward Orme. 1817, 1817. Two volumes. 4to. 270x205mm. pp. viii, 296; 294. Seventy-one engraved plates. Contemporary straight-grained dark blue morocco, borders in gilt and blind to upper and lower covers. Spine with four raised bands, decorated and lettered in gilt. Small round shelf label to foot of spine of volume one. All edges gilt. Seventy-one plates. Additional engraved illustrated title page to volume two. Slight scuffing to boards in two places and minor rubbing to extremities. Internally some browning and foxing but overall a very good copy in a handsome binding. Lairesse (1641-1711) was a major figure in the art world of the Dutch Golden Age. He began his career as a painter, influenced initially by Rembrandt (who painted him - the portrait is in the Metropolitan in New York) and, later, by the French masters, especially Poussin. In 1690 he lost his sight due to congenital syphilis and so concentrated on art theory, writing two important works on the subject, Grondlegginge Ter Teekenkonst (1701) and Het Groot Schilderboek (1707) The Treatise on the Art of Painting is the English version of the second of these. Lairesse's theories departed from the practice of much Dutch seventeenth-century painting: he argued that serious painting should not represent everyday life but rather address high-minded historical, religious and mythological themes. Lairesse was an important influence on eighteenth-century artists, particularly in England where "The Grand Manner" was adopted as the ideal. �
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- A Treatise on the Art of Painting in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, illustrating the subject by reference to their beauties and imperfections. By Gerard de Lairesse. Revised, corrected, and accompanied with an essay, by W.M.Craig, painter to Her Majesty and the Duke and Duchess of York.
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- DE LAIRESSE, Gerard
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- Hardcover
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- London: Published and Sold by Edward Orme. 1817
- Date Published
- 1817
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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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