An Essay on Painting: Being a Notion of the Historical
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cooper, Anthong>onong>y Ashley, 3rd, PUBLISHER: Gale Ecco, Print Editiong>onong>s, The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, explorong>atong>iong>onong> and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determinong>atong>iong>onong> to preserve the century of revolutiong>onong>, Gale initiong>atong>ed a revolutiong>onong> of its own: digitizong>atong>iong>onong> of epic proportiong>onong>s to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduong>atong>e students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascinong>atong>iong>onong> with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systemong>atong>ic excavong>atong>iong>onong> of the ruins ong>atong> Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after a neoclassical style dominong>atong>ed all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works ong>onong> painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theong>atong>er, and other disciplines. Instructiong>onong>al works ong>onong> musical instruments, cong>atong>alogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below dong>atong>a was compiled from various identificong>atong>iong>onong> fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This dong>atong>a is provided as an additiong>onong>al tool in helping to insure editiong>onong> identificong>atong>iong>onong>: ++++ Harvard University Fine Arts Library N Long>onong>dong>onong>: printed by John Darby, and sold by J. Roberts, ]p.; 8