Art in Theory 1648-1815 -

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Résumé :
Acknowledgements.

A Note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts.

General Introduction.

Part I: Establishing the Place of Art:.

Introduction.

1. Ancients and Moderns:.

1. From The Painting of the Ancients 1637: Franciscus Junius.

2. Letter to Junius 1637: Peter Paul Rubens.

3. From The Art of Painting, its Antiquity and Greatness 1649: Francisco Pacheco.

4. Dedication to Constantijn Huygens from Icones I 1660: Jan de Bisschop.

5. From Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues 1685: William Aglionby.

6. 'A Digression on the Ancients and the Moderns' 1688: Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.

7. Preface and 'Second Dialogue' from Parallel of the Ancients and Moderns 1688: Charles Perrault.

8. From Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning 1694: William Wotton.

2. The Academy: Systems and Principles:.

9. Letters to Chantelou and to Chambray 1647/1665: Nicholas Poussin.

10. Observations on Painting c. 1660-5: Nicholas Poussin.

11. Recollections of Poussin 1662-1685: Various Authors.

12. Petition to the King and to the Lords of his Council 1648: Martin de Charmois.

13. Statutes and Regulations of the Acad?mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture 1648.

14. From An Idea of the Perfection of Painting 1662: Roland Fr?art de Chambray.

15. Letter to Poussin c. 1665: Jean Baptiste Colbert.

16. 'The Idea of the Painter, Sculptor and Architect' 1664: Giovanni Pietro Bellori.

17. From Conversations on the Lives and Works of the Most Excellent Ancient and Modern Painters 1666: Andr? F?libien.

18. Preface to Seven Conferences 1667: Andr? F?libien.

19. 'First Conference' 1667: Charles LeBrun.

20. 'Second Conference' 1667: Philippe de Champaigne.

21. 'Sixth Conference' 1667: Charles LeBrun.

22. 'Conference on Expression' 1668: Charles LeBrun.

23. Table of Precepts: Expression 1680: Henri Testelin.

3. Form and Colour:.

24. 'De Imitatione Statuorum', before 1640: Peter Paul Rubens.

25. From The Microcosm of Painting 1657: Francesco Scannelli.

26. From 'Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France' 1665: Paul Fr?art de Chantelou.

27. From De Arte Graphica 1667: Charles-Alphonse Du Fresnoy.

28. 'Remarks on De Arte Graphica' 1668: Roger de Piles.

29. From The Rich Mines of Venetian Painting 1676: Marco Boschini.

30. 'Conference on Titian's Virgin and Child with St John' 1671: Phillipe de Champaigne.

31. 'Conference on the Merits of Colour' 1671: Louis Gabriel Blanchard.

32. 'Thoughts on M. Blanchard's Discourse on the Merits of Colour' 1672: Charles LeBrun.

33. From Dialogue upon Colouring 1673: Roger de Piles.

34. From Practical Discourse on the Most Noble Art of Painting c. 1675: Jusepe Martinez.

35. From The Antiquity of the Art of Painting c. 1690: Felix da Costa.

4. The 'je ne sais quoi':.

36. From The Hero 1637: Baltasar Graci?n.

37. From The Art of Worldly Wisdom 1647: Baltasar Graci?n.

38. 'Answer to Davenant's Preface to Gondibert' 1650: Thomas Hobbes.

39. From Fire in the Bush and The Law of Freedom in a Platform 1650/2: Gerrard Winstanley.

40. From Pens?es c.1654-1662: Blaise Pascal.

41. On Grace and Beauty from Conversations on the Lives and Works of the Most Excellent Ancient and Modern Painters 1666: Andr? F?libien.

42. From The Conversations of Aristo and Eugene 1671: Dominique Bouhours.

43. Fr...

Biographie:
or, The Visible World 1678: Samuel van Hoogstraten.

52. 'The Excellency of Painting' from A Treatise of Perspective 1684: R. P. Bernard Lamy.

53. From Principles for Studying the Sovereign and Most Noble Art of Painting 1693: Jos? Garcia Hidalgo.

Part II: The Profession of Art:.

Introduction.

6. Painting as a Liberal Art:.

54. From The Great Book on Painting 1707: Gerard de Lairesse.

55. From The Principles of Painting 1708: Roger de Piles.

56. On Feminine Studies, After 1700: Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757).

57. 'To the Reader' 1710: Mary Chudleigh.

58. From The Pictorial Museum and Optical Scale 1715-24: Antonio Palomino y Velasco.

59. From Essay on the Theory of Painting 1715: Jonathan Richardson.

60. From The Science of a Connoisseur 1719: Jonathan Richardson.

61. On the Grand Manner, from 'On the Aesthetic of the Painter' 1721: Antoine Coypel.

62. From 'On the Excellence of Painting' 1721: Antoine Coypel.

63. From Cyclopaedia 1728: Ephraim Chambers.

64. 'On Drawings' 1732: Comte de Caylus.

65. 'The Life of Antoine Watteau' 1748: Comte de Caylus.

7. Imagination and Understanding:.

66. 'Of the Association of Ideas' from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1700: John Locke.

67. From 'The Moralists, A Philosophical Rhapsody' 1709: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury.

68. From 'A Notion of the Historical Draught of the Tablature of the Judgement of Hercules' 1712: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury.

69. 'On the Pleasures of the Imagination' 1712: Joseph Addison.

70. From Treatise on Beauty 1714: Jean-Pierre de Crousaz.

71. From Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting 1719: Abb? Jean-Baptiste du Bos.

72. Preface to An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue 1725: Francis Hutcheson.

73. 'Third Dialogue' from Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher 1732: George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne.

74. 'Of the Sublime' 1725: Jonathan Richardson.

75. 'The Beau Ideal' 1732: Lambert Hermanson ten Kate.

76. From The Philosopher's Cabinet 1734: Pierre de Marivaux.

77. 'The Beauty of the World' c.1750: Jonathan Edwards.

Part III: Judgement and the Public Sphere:.

Introduction.

8. Classical and Contemporary:.

78. From A Treatise on Ancient Painting 1740: George Turnbull.

79. From 'Discourse on the Arts and Sciences' 1750: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

80. From 'Discourse on the Origins of Inequality' 1755: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

81. From Observations upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum 1753: J?r?me-Charles Bellicard and Charles Nicolas Cochin fils.

82. From Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture 1755: Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

83. From An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting 1761: Daniel Webb.

84. From The Antiquities of Athens 1762: James Stewart and Nicholas Revett.

85. From A History of Ancient Art 1764: Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

86. 'Of the Camera Obscura' from Essay on Painting 1764: Francesco Algarotti.

87. From Laoco?n: on the Limitations of Painting and Poetry 1766: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

9. Aesthetics and the Sublime:.

88. From Reflections on Poetry 1735: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten.

89. 'Prolegomena' to Aesthetica 1750: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten.

90. From The Analysis of Beauty 1753: William Hogarth.

Sommaire:
or The Art of Limning, Revised 1648: Edward Norgate.

46. On Rembrandt and Jan Lievens c.1630: Constantijn Huygens.

47. Letters to Constantijn Huygens 1636-9: Rembrandt van Rijn.

48. From In Praise of Painting 1642: Philips Angel.

49. From The Art of Painting, its Antiquity and Greatness 1649: Francisco Pacheco.

50. Preface to Perspective Practical 1651: Jean Dubreuil.

51. From Introduction to the Academy of Painting...