Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures

Front matter

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Section 1. Definition of Painting, and of a Picture - 12

„ 2. Of a good Picture - - - 13

„ 3. Of a good Choice (of Subject) - 13

„ 4. Of Invention - - - - 18

„ 5. Of Composition - - - 19

„ 6. Of the Disposition of the Subject - 22 „ 7. Of the Design, the Airs of the Heads, the

Attitudes, and the Expression - - 23

,, 8. Of Linear Perspective - - - 26

„ 9. Of Aerial Perspective - - - 27

„ 10. Of the Colours, proper and local - - 28

„ 11. Of the General Tone of Colour - - 36

„ 12. Of the Clear Obscure - - - 41

„ 13. Of Transparency - - - - 43

„ 15. Of the Effect - - - -46

„ 16. Of the Empasto - - - - 48

„ 17. Of the Touch - - - - 55 viii

Of the Manner of analysing and describing Pictures - 91

CHAPTER VII. Of the General Schools of Painting

Of that which constitutes a School of Painting - - - - -113 Of the Florentine or Tuscan School - 116 Of the Roman School - - - 1 1 8 Of the Venetian School - - - 119 Of the School of Lombardy - -122 Of the Flemish School - - - 125 Of the Dutch School - - - 133 Of the French School - - - 135 Of the German School - - - 139

CHAPTER VIII. Observations on the Causes of the Characteristics which

distinguish the different Schools from each other - 142

Chapter IX

Of the Classification of Pictures according to their Subject,

with Remarks on the Natural and Ideal Classes - 151

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On the Causes of the Superiority of the Pictures of the Sixteenth and Seven teeth Centuries over those of the past Century - - - - - -160

CHAPTER XT.

Of the different Manners of the Masters - - 168

Of the Prices at which the Pictures of the most distinguished Flemish, Dutch, and German Painters have been sold, up to this time - 225

Chapter XV

Of the different Methods of cleaning Pictures, and of the Precautions to be taken in lining and restoring them - 247

Section 1 . The Necessity of every Amateur learning to

clean his Pictures ... . 247

„ 2. Of Pictures covered with Mastic Varnish, or

other Gums of a similar nature - - 250

„ 3. Of Pictures that are covered with Oil - 259

„ 4. Of Pictures that are covered with a bad

„ 5. Of Pictures that are covered with the White of Eggs, or with Isinglass, or with Water Varnish ----- 264

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Section 6. Of Pictures that are covered with Smoke, or other Atmospheric Deposit, without ever having been varnished or oiled - - 266

„ 7. Of the different kinds of Mould that attack

Pictures - 270

„ 8. Of the Cases in which the Scraper and Smoothing-irons may be used upon Pictures - - - - - 273

„ 9. General Precautions to be taken in the

cleaning, lining, and restoring of Pictures 275

CHAPTER XVI. Of the Varnishes employed upon Pictures - - 289

Section 1. Of bad Varnishes - - . -289

„ 2. Of good Varnish - - - - 296

Chapter XVII

Of Public Galleries, with Remarks on those of Paris, Vienna, Dresden, Dusseldorf, and Munich - - 302

Chapter XVIII

Of the Utility of Private Collections, and how to form them properly - - - - - -324

LIST OF PLATES.

1. CORREGIO, 1

or > Cupid shaping his Bow. To face title-page.

Parmegiano J

2. Poelemburg. The Adoration of the Shepherds. - 106

3. Van Aelst. Fruit-piece. - 109

4. Teniers. Village Festival. - - 146

ON

THE KNOWLEDGE

NECESSAKY TO

AMATEURS IN PICTURES.

CHAPTEE I.