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* THE WORKS OR
more advanced age will be incapable os re-
ceiving a good one;
It is necesskry, therefore, that this" Treatise
be read by various classes of Painters; and also
with various ressections;
The beginner ought to read it only th com-
prehend what is vast and difficult in the art, to:
the end that he may hasteri and not lose time
in learning the inferior parts of it ; in the mean
time, notwithstanding such parts are the
materials and fundaments of the art, they are
but of little use until they are adjoined to all-
the other parts of the grand edifice;
The second class of Painters, that is to say;
thoie who are already in full possession of the
first principles, are for whom this book is
chiessy written, in order that they may learn
what is Taste, and examine is they themselves
possess it from Nature or not, or by what means
or examples they can acquire it.
The professional painter may likewise find
something useful in this Treatise, as much in
distinguilhing the true beauties os the great
matters, as to guide youth properly in the siudy
os that art.
I speak freely, because I know in this world
we have no other certain means to prove the
value of a thing, than the experience of its
utility. Of this experience I am myself an
example, since all which I know I have learnt
by the way and manner of thinking described
in this Treatise.
If some parts os this work ihould be found
more advanced age will be incapable os re-
ceiving a good one;
It is necesskry, therefore, that this" Treatise
be read by various classes of Painters; and also
with various ressections;
The beginner ought to read it only th com-
prehend what is vast and difficult in the art, to:
the end that he may hasteri and not lose time
in learning the inferior parts of it ; in the mean
time, notwithstanding such parts are the
materials and fundaments of the art, they are
but of little use until they are adjoined to all-
the other parts of the grand edifice;
The second class of Painters, that is to say;
thoie who are already in full possession of the
first principles, are for whom this book is
chiessy written, in order that they may learn
what is Taste, and examine is they themselves
possess it from Nature or not, or by what means
or examples they can acquire it.
The professional painter may likewise find
something useful in this Treatise, as much in
distinguilhing the true beauties os the great
matters, as to guide youth properly in the siudy
os that art.
I speak freely, because I know in this world
we have no other certain means to prove the
value of a thing, than the experience of its
utility. Of this experience I am myself an
example, since all which I know I have learnt
by the way and manner of thinking described
in this Treatise.
If some parts os this work ihould be found