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• Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, : avec leurs portraits gravés en taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages. Quelques réflexions sur leurs caractères, et la maniere de connoître les desseins et les tableaux des grands maîtres. (Chez De Bure l'aîne, Quai des Augustins, du côté du Pont Saint Michel, à Saint Paul, 1762), by A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville, Jean Debure, Michel Aubert, Jean Jacques Flipart, François Guillemot, and François Boucher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes : avec la vie des architectes (De l'Imprimerie de S.A.S., 1725), by André Félibien and J.-F. Félibien des Avaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissements historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent : ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes. (Chez George Conrad Walther ..., 1755), by Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, Pierre Hutin, and Franz Christoph Janneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres. (Chez Nicolas Langlois ..., 1681), by Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vite dé pittori antichi (per Francesco Ricciardo, 1730), by Smarrito, Francesco Ricciardo, and Italy) Stamperia all'Insegna della Stella (Florence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vite de' pittori antichi (In Firenze : Nella Stamperia della Stella, MDCLXVII [1667], 1667), by Smarrito, Accademia della Crusca, and Italy) Stamperia all'insegna della stella (Florence (page images at HathiTrust)
• A concise introduction to the knowledge of the most eminent painters : by which every lover of the art of painting may instantly know the names, the years, and places of the birth of above two thousand four hundred of the most celebrated artists, who have flourished in any kingdom of Europe for upwards of five hundred years past : and also the subjects painted by each artist, the master under whom he studied, and the age at which he died : intended to instruct (as well as to assist the memory of) those gentlemen and connoisseurs, who either travel abroad for the improvement of their taste, or intend to view the curious collections in these kingdoms. (Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, bookseller and printer to the Royal Academy, 1778), by T. Cadell and Matthew Pilkington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notices générales des graveurs, divisés par nations, et des peintres rangés par écoles : précédées de l'histoire de la gravure et de la peinture depuis l'origine de ces arts jusqu'à nos jours, et suivies d'un catalogue raisonné d'une collection choisie d'estampes (Chez J.G.I. Breitkopf, 1787), by M. Huber, Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, and Jakob Wilhelm Mechau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tables historiques et chronologiques des plus fameux peintres anciens et modernes (Imprimées par Frédéric Guillaume Meyer ..., 1742), by Antoine Frédéric Harms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entretiens svr les vies et svr les ovvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes (Chez Pierre le Petit ..., 1666), by André Félibien, Veuve Mabre-Cramoisy, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Jean Baptiste Coignard, and Pierre Le Petit (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of painting, and the lives of the painters : containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints : with reflections on the works of the most celebrated painters, and of the several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern : being the newest, and most perfect work of the kind extant (Printed for J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1706), by Roger de Piles, John Nutt, Joseph Nutting, Antoine Coypel, and Bainbrigg Buckeridge, trans. by John Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes (Aux dépens d'Estienne Roger ..., 1706), by André Félibien, Jan Lamsvelt, Estienne Roger, and Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het schilder-boeck, waerin voor eerst de leerlustighe iueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen. Daer nae in dry deelen t'leuen der vermaerde doorluchtighe schilders des ouden, en nieuwen tyds. Eyntlyck d'wtlegghinghe op den Metamorphoseon Pub. Ouidij Nasonis. Oock daerbeneffens wtbeeldinghe der figueren. Alles dienstich en nut den schilders, constbeminders en dichters, oock allen staten van menschen. (Voor Paschier van Wesbusch boeckvercooper, 1604), by Carel van Mander and Jacob Matham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists and incidental notes on other arts (Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, 1762), by Horace Walpole and George Vertue (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of painting, and the lives of the painters : containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints : with reflections on the works of the most celebrated painters, and of the several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern : being the newest, and most perfect work of the kind extant (Printed for J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1706), by Roger de Piles, John Nutt, Joseph Nutting, Antoine Coypel, and Bainbrigg Buckeridge, trans. by John Savage (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists and incidental notes on other arts (Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, 1762), by Horace Walpole and George Vertue (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, dessins, estampes, figures de bronze & de marbre, & morceaux d'histoire naturelle, qui composoient le cabinet de feu M. Poullain, receveur général des domaines du roi : suivi d'un abrégé historique de la vie des peintres dont les ouvrages formoient cette collection (Ce catalogue se trouve a Paris chez Langlier, ... Le Brun, ... Julliot fils, ... ;, 1780), by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, Jean Dambrun, P. F. Julliot, and Poullain (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vies des premiers-peintres du roi, depuis M. Le Brun, jusquà̓ présent. (Chez Durand ... :, 1752), by François Bernard Lépicié (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie de Carle Vanloo. (Chez Desaint, libraire ..., 1765), by Michel François Dandré-Bardon and Jean Desaint (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leven der schilders (By Steven van Esveldt ..., 1764), by Carel van Mander, Jan Ladmiral, Steven van Esveldt, and Jacobus de Jongh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vite dei pittori antichi greci e latini (Dai torchj Pazzini Carli, 1795), by Guglielmo Della Valle, Pazzini Carli, and Smarrito (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vita del graziosissimo pittore Francesco Mazzola, detto il Parmigianino (Presso Filippo Carmignani, stampatore per privil. di S.A.R., 1784), by Ireneo Affò and Filippo Carmignani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Painting illustrated in three dialogues (Printed by John Gain for the author :, 1685), by William Aglionby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vita inedita di Raffaello da Urbino : illustrata con note (Appresso Il Salvioni, 1791), by Angelo Comolli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le pitture di Cento e le vite in compendio di varj incisori e pittori della stessa città. (Nella stamperia camerale, 1768), by Orazio Cammillo Righetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notizie storiche sincere intorno la vita e le opere del celebre pittore Antonio Allegri da Correggio (Stamperia di G. de'Rossi, 1781), by Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indice del libro intitolato Parnaso de' pittori : in cui si contengono varj disegni originali raccolti in Roma da S.R. (Presso Carlo Baduel, 1787), by Sebastiano Resta and Carlo Baduel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indice del libro intitolato Parnaso de' pittori : in cui si contengono varj disegni originali raccolti in Roma da S.R. (Pe'l Costantini, 1707), by Sebastiano Resta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vite dei pittori antichi greci e latini (Dai torchj Pazzini Carli, 1795), by Guglielmo Della Valle, Pazzini Carli, and Smarrito (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ritratti di alcuni celebri pittori del secolo XVII (Per Antonio de' Rossi :, 1731), by Ottavio Leoni, Fausto Amidei, Antonio de Rossi, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abcedario pittorico : nel quale compendiosamente sono descritte le patrie, i maestri, ed i tempi, ne' quali fiorirono circa quattro mila professori di pittura, di scultura, e d'architettura : diviso in tre parti ... (Per Costantino Pisarri ..., 1704), by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi and Costantino Pisarri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue raisonné des tableaux du roy : avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres, fait par ordre de Sa Majeste (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1752), by François Bernard Lépicié (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vita inedita di Raffaello da Urbino (Appresso Il Salvioni stampator vaticano, 1790), by Angelo Comolli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Herrn Lepicié critisches Verzeichniss der Gemälde des Königs in Frankreich : nebst kurzen Lebensbeschreibungen der Maler (Bey Joh. Jac. Curt, 1769), by François Bernard Lépicié and Johann Jakob Curt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notizie intorno al pittore Gasparantonio Baroni Cavalcabò di Sacco. (Per gli eredi di Marco Moroni, 1781), by Clementino Vannetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serie di ritratti di celebri pittori dipinti di propria mano consacrata alle altezze reali di Pietro Leopoldo ... e di Maria Luisa di Borbone (Nella Stamperia Moückiana, 1765), by Orazio Marrini, Francesco Moücke, and Antonio Pazzi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nieuw schouburg der Nederlandsche konst schilders en schilderessen (Gedrukt voor den autheur, 1750), by Johan van Gool (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leven der schilders (By Steven van Esveldt ..., 1764), by Carel van Mander, Jan Ladmiral, Steven van Esveldt, and Jacobus de Jongh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nieuw schouburg der Nederlandsche konst schilders en schilderessen (Gedrukt voor den autheur, 1750), by Johan van Gool (page images at HathiTrust)
• De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen : waar van 'er veele met hunne beeltenissen ten tooneel verschynen, en hun levensgedrag en konstwerken beschreven worden : zynde een vervolg op het Schilderboek van K. v. Mander ... (by J. Swart, C. Boucquet, en M. Gaillard, 1753), by Arnold Houbraken and Carel van Mander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leven der schilders (By Steven van Esveldt ..., 1764), by Carel van Mander, Jan Ladmiral, Steven van Esveldt, and Jacobus de Jongh (page images at HathiTrust)

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