WITH The Practice of the Art, AND HISTORICAL NOTICES OF ITS PROGRESS. “There have been in the history of Art, four grand styles of imitating Nature--Tempera, Encaustic, Fresco, and Oil. These, together with the minor modes of Painting, we propose arranging in something like chronological sequence; but our design being to offer an explanation of the Art derived from practical acquaintance, rather than attempt to give its history, we shall confine ourselves for the most part to so much only of the History of Painting as is necessary to elucidate the origin of the different practices which have obtained at different periods.”…
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