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PART THE FIRST.
CHA P. L
GENERAL RULES TO JUDGE OF THE MERIT OF
PRINTERS.
TO know the merit of the professors of an Art
or Science, it is necessary to know the fun-
daments of the same Science or Art. Painting
has different parts, as well general as particular.
Some are so essential that without them no one
can call himself a Painter; others render the
professors more precious or more dissin^t, more
common or more trivial.
The quality most necessary is the imitation
of all things, which can be conceived and re-
presented in a moment. The second consists in
the ideal, that is, in the representation of things
which have no original ; from whence the Pain-
ter has to represent it according to the concep-
tion which he has of it in his mind, without its
having passed by way of the senses,
PART THE FIRST.
CHA P. L
GENERAL RULES TO JUDGE OF THE MERIT OF
PRINTERS.
TO know the merit of the professors of an Art
or Science, it is necessary to know the fun-
daments of the same Science or Art. Painting
has different parts, as well general as particular.
Some are so essential that without them no one
can call himself a Painter; others render the
professors more precious or more dissin^t, more
common or more trivial.
The quality most necessary is the imitation
of all things, which can be conceived and re-
presented in a moment. The second consists in
the ideal, that is, in the representation of things
which have no original ; from whence the Pain-
ter has to represent it according to the concep-
tion which he has of it in his mind, without its
having passed by way of the senses,