Painting illustrated in three diallogues, containing some choice observations upon the art: together with the lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo : with an explanation of the difficult terms

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Aglionby, William

Publisher

• Publication

  London: printed by John Gain for the author, 1685

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1685

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    kunstenaarsbiografieën (vorm)
  • As subject 

    kunstgeschiedenis
  • As subject 

    kunstschilders

• Period

  1300-1599

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • First edition, of particular note as the first appearance of any part of Vasari in English (the lives of Cimabue, Ghiotto, Lionardo, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Giorgione, Michael Angelo, Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, Titian and Donato, a sculptor [all spellings sic]). The preface contains brief remarks on the author’s English contemporaries such as Inigo Jones, Grinling Gibbons, Dobson, Walker, Riley and the miniaturists Oliver and Cooper. He intended a second volume on the lives of the painters from the Carracci onwards but this was never published. Following the preface are three dialogues explaining the art of painting, the history of painting and ‘how to know good pictures.’ Then, finally, comes the major section, the lives from Vasari. Wing A 764. Rostenberg, Engl publishers in the graphic arts, p. 98 (B53). Schlosser-Magnino, pp. 339, 646. Besterman, p. 1. UCBA, I, p. 10. (Charles Wood, Cat. 160)
  • Exlibris van Sir Francis Lindley Wood, Bart

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