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• Practical Treatise on Painting in Oil-Colours (London: Printed for B. and J. White ..., 1795), by Thomas Bardwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conférences de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture : recueillies, annotées et précédées d'une étude sur les artistes écrivains (A. Quantin, 1883), by Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France) and Henri Auguste Jouin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo pittore della maestrà di Carlo III, re di Spagna, ec. ec. ec. (Dalla Stamperia reale, 1780), by Anton Raphael Mengs and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs (Stamperia Pagliarini, 1787), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Carlo Fèa, and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Da pintura antigua (Edição de "Renascença Portuguesa", 1918), by Francisco de Hollanda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• L'arte della pittura di Carlo Alfonso du Fresnoy (A. de'Rossi, 1713), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, A.G.R., and Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della pittura (Carabba, 1914), by Leonardo da Vinci and Angelo Borzelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Arte de la pintura, su antigüedad y grandezas... (Impr. de M. Galiano, 1866), by Francisco Pacheco and Gregorio Cruzada Villaamil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von der hochedlen Malerei / Tractat des Michel Angelo Biondo (Venedig 1549) ; übersetzt, mit Einleitung und Noten versehen von Albert Ilg. (Wilhelm Braumüller, 1873), by Michelangelo Biondo and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• De C.A. Dufresnoy pictoris : Poemate quod "De Arte graphica" inscribitur (Apud G. Rapilly, 1901), by Paul Vitry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il riposo. (Società tipografica de' Classici italiani, 1807), by Raffaello Borghini, Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, Antonio Maria Biscioni, and Società tipografica de' classici italiani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manière de bien juger des ouvrages de peinture (Chez Claude-Antoine Jombert, fils aîné ..., 1771), by Marc-Antoine Laugier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Mvseo. (Milano, 1909), by Federico Borromeo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Painting illustrated in three dialogues (Printed by John Gain for the author :, 1685), by William Aglionby (page images at HathiTrust)
• De'veri precetti della pittura : libri tre (Tip. de V. Ferrario, 1820), by Giovanni Battista Armenini and S. Ticozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della nobilissima pittura (Alla Insegna di Appolline, 1549), by Michelangelo Biondo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diálogos de la pintura (Impr. de M. Galiano, 1865), by Vicente Carducho and Gregorio Cruzada Villaamil (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the art of Cennino Cennini; a contemporaty practical treatise of quattrocento painting translated from the Italian, with notes on mediaeval art methods (G. Allen & Unwin, 1922), by Cennino Cennini and Christiana Jane Powell Herringham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discours prononcez dans les Conferences de lÁcademie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. (Impr. de J. Collombat, 1721), by Antoine Coypel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo della pittura di M. Lodovico Dolce, intitolato l'Aretino. Nel quale si ragiona della dignità di essa pittura, e di tutte le parti necessarie, che a perfetto pittore si acconvengono: con esempi di pittori antichi, e moderni: e nel fine si fa menzione delle vitù, e delle opere del divin Tiziano. (M. Nestenus e F. Moücke, 1735), by Lodovico Dolce and Nicolas Vleughels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialog über Malerei (W. Braümuller, 1871), by Lodovico Dolce, Rudolf von Eitelberger von Edelberg, and Cajetan Cerri (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Aretino (Carabba, 1913), by Lodovico Dolce, Domenico Ciampoli, approximately 1488-1576 Titian, and Pietro Aretino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trattato delle materie pi necessarie, per apprendere con fondamento quest' arte (Per Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli, 1739), by Antonio Franchi and Giuseppe Rigacci (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on painting (J. B. Nichols and son, 1835), by Leonardo da Vinci, John William Brown, and J. F. Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Buch von der Malerei (W. Braumüller, 1882), by Leonardo da Vinci and Heinrich Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch von der malerei. Deutsche ausg. Nach dem codex vaticanus 1270 Übers (W. Braumüller, 1882), by Leonardo da Vinci and Heinrich Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of painting under the heads of anatomy ... unity, etc. : in which is contained, an account of the Athenian, Roman, Venetian and Flemish schools : to which is added, the balance of painters, being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art : of singular use to those who would form an idea of the value of paintings and pictures (Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden Ball, in Pater-noster Row, 1743), by Roger de Piles, James Mynde, and John Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de divers ouvrages sur la peinture et le coloris (Cellot & Jombert, 1775), by Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio pittorico ed analisi delle pitture più famose esistenti in Roma, con il compendio delle vite de' più eccellenti pitori ec. ec. (G. Petrucci, 1818), by Michelangelo Prunetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philostrati maioris Imagines, Ottonis Benndorfii et Caroli Schenkelii consilio et opera adivti recensvervnt Seminariorvm vindobonensivm sodales. (in aedibvs B. G. Tevbneri, 1893), by Philostratus the Athenian, the Lemnian Philostratus, Karl Schenkl, and Otto Benndorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philostrati minoris Imagines et Callistrati Descriptiones (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1902), by the Lemnian Philostratus, Heinrich Schenkl, Emil Reisch, Karl Schenkl, and active 3rd century-4th century Callistratus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un discours sur la science d'un connoisseur (Chez Herman Uytwerf, 1728), by Jonathan Richardson, Claude Duflos, Gabriel François Louis Debrie, Lambert ten Kate, and Jonathan Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heraclius : von den farben und künsten der Römer. Originaltext und übersetzung (W. Braumüller, 1873), by Eraclius and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philostratus and Eunapius; the lives of the Sophists (Harvard University Press, 1921), by Philostratus the Athenian, Arthur Fairbanks, active 3rd century-4th century Callistratus, and the Lemnian Philostratus (page images at HathiTrust)
• La pittura in Parnaso : opera (Nella stamperia di Michele Nestenus, 1725), by Giovanni Maria Ciocchi and Michele Nestenus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedanken über die Schönheit und den Geschmack in der Malerey (Orell, Gessner, Füesslin, 1771), by Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Caspar Fuessli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quatre dialogues sur la peinture (H. Champion, 1911), by Francisco de Hollanda and Léo Rouanet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Di Cennino Cennini trattato della pittura messo in luce la prima volta con annotazioni dal cavaliere Giuseppe Tambroni ... (Paolo Salviucci, 1821), by Cennino Cennini and Giuseppe Tambroni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manière de bien juger des ouvrages de peinture. (Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1980), by Marc-Antoine Laugier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De arte graphica. The art of painting (Printed by J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers, 1695), by Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, Richard Graham, and John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of painting (Ward, 1777), by Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the theory of painting. (Printed for A. C. and sold by A. Bettesworth, 1725), by Jonathan Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the beauties of paintings ; and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern (S. Cotter, 1764), by Daniel Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on painting (J. Taylor, 1802), by Leonardo da Vinci, John Sidney Hawkins, and J. F. Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo di pittura di messer Paolo Pino (P. Gherardo, 1548), by Paolo Pino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der Malerei vom Berge Athos (Lintz, 1855), by of Fourna Dionysios, Adolphe Napoléon Didron, and Jodeh Schäfer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Malerbuch : vollständige zusammenstellung seines inhalts von Woldemar von Seidlitz. (J. Bard, 1919), by Leonardo da Vinci and Woldemar von Seidlitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trattato della pittura (Carabba, 1924), by Leonardo da Vinci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De la statue et de la peinture. (A. Lévy, 1868), by Leon Battista Alberti and Claudius Marcel Popelin-Ducarre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della pittura (Unione cooperativa editrice, 1890), by Leonardo da Vinci, Gaetano Milanesi, Giorgio Vasari, Marco Tabarrini, and Mario Tabarrini (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the beauties of painting, and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1761), by Daniel Webb, James Dodsley, and Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters ... (Printed for T. Payne, 1754), by Roger de Piles and Bainbrigg Buckeridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs ... : Tr. from the Italian (R. Faulder [etc, 1796), by Anton Raphael Mengs and José Nicolás de Azara y Perera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il riposo ... (Società tipografica de'Classici italiani, 1807), by Raffaello Borghini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions sur la peinture et la gravure : accompagnées d'une courte dissertation sur le commerce de la curiosité, et les ventes en générale : ouvrage utile aux amateurs, aux artistes et aux marchands (C. Lamort, 1786), by F. C. Joullain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discursos practicables del nobilísimo arte de la pintura. Sus rudimentos, medios y fines que enseña la esperiencia, con los ejemplares de obras insignes de artífices ilustres. (Imp. y lit. de M. Peiro, 1853), by Jusepe Martínez (page images at HathiTrust)
• De' veri precetti della pittura di M. Gio. Battista Armenini (Apresso Francesco Tebaldini, ad instantia di Tomaso Pasini Libraro in Bologna, 1587), by Giovanni Battista Armenini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le dessinateur, pour les fabriques d'etoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie : avec la traduction de six tables raisonnées, tirées de l'Abecedario pittorico, imprimé à Naples en 1733 (Chez Sébastien Jorry, rue & vis-à-vis la Comédie françoise, Bauche, Quai des Augustins, Brocas, rue S. Jacques, au Chef S. Jean, 1765), by Antoine Nicolas. Joubert de l'Hiberderie, Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Jean Brocas, Jean Baptiste Claude Bauche, and Sébastien Jorry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disegno (Appresso Gabriel Giolito di Ferrarii, 1549), by Anton Francesco Doni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs ... (A Spese Remondini di Venezia, 1783), by Anton Raphael Mengs and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy's Art of painting (Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley ... T. Cadell ... R. Faulder ... London, and J. Todd, York, 1783), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, John Todd, Robert Faulder, T. Cadell, James Dodsley, Anne Ward, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, William Mason, Joshua Reynolds, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (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)
• Œuvres complètes d'Antoine-Raphaël Mengs ... contenant différens traités sur la théorie de la peinture. Traduit de l'Italien ... (A l'Hôtel de Thou, 1786), by Anton Raphael Mengs and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertation sur les ouvrages des plus fameux peintres. (Chez Nicolas Langlois ..., 1681), by Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio pittorico. (Zempel, 1786), by Michelangelo Prunetti and Stanislao Sanseverino (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the beauties of painting; and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern. (Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall., 1769), by Daniel Webb and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de la peinture. (Perlet, 1803), by Leonardo da Vinci and P. M. Gault de Saint-Germain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della pittura. (P. Salviucci, 1821), by Cennino Cennini and Giuseppe Tambroni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salons, tome 1-[3] (Brière, 1821), by Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philostratorum Imagines et Callistrati Statuae. (Dyckiana, 1825), by Philostratus the Athenian, active 3rd century-4th century Callistratus, the Lemnian Philostratus, active 3rd or 4th century Callistratus, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Minor Philostratus, and Friedrich Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Werke. (J.B. Metzler, 1828), by Philostratus the Athenian, the Lemnian Philostratus, active 3rd or 4th century Callistratus, Adolph Heinrich Christian, George Joseph Bekker, August Ferdinand Lindau, and Friedrich Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• De' veri precetti della pittura : ... Opera non solo utile, & necessaria à tutti gli artefici per cagion del disegno; lume, & fondamento di tutte l'altre arti minori, ma anco à ciascun' altra persona intendente di cosi nobile professione ... (Appresso F. Tebaldini ad instantia di Tomaso Pasini Libraro in Bologna, 1972), by Giovanni Battista Armenini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trattato della nobilta della pittura : composto ad instantia della venerabil'compagnia di S. Luca et nobil' Academia delli pittori di Roma (Francesco Zannetti, 1585), by Romano Alberti and Accademia nazionale di San Luca (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school. (Printed for T. Payne, 1754), by Roger de Piles and Bainbrigg Buckeridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy's Art of painting translated into English verse (Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall :, 1783), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, John Todd, Robert Faulder, T. Cadell, James Dodsley, Joshua Reynolds, and William Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• De arte graphica; or, The art of painting. (Printed for R. Francklin, 1754), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, James Wills, and Thomas Birch (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the beauties of painting; and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern. (R. and J. Dodsley, 1760), by Daniel Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogue on painting (Printed for P. Elmsley ... and sold by I. Dodsley ..., G. Pearch ..., M. Hingeston ..., D. Prince ..., and Mr. Braim ..., 1770), by Lodovico Dolce, Peter Elmsley, Pietro Aretino, and W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della pittura (Stamperia de Romanis, 1817), by Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi, and Guglielmo Manzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dei veri precetti della pittura (N. Capurro, 1823), by Giovanni Battista Armenini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de la peinture (C. Delagrave, 1910), by Leonardo da Vinci and Joséphin Péladan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works, containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essay on the art of criticism, so far as it relates to painting. III. The science of a connoisseur (London], 1792), by Jonathan Richardson, Joshua Reynolds, and Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Aretino : ovvero, Dialogo della pittura (G. Daelli, 1863), by Lodovico Doice and approximately 1488-1576 Titian (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the knowledge and restoration of old paintings. (Ackermann and Co., 1847), by T. H. Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte de la pintura, su antigüedad, y grandezas. Describense los hombres eminentes que ha auido en ella y sus preceptos; del dibujo, y colorido; del pintar al temple y al oleo; de la iluminacion y estofado; del pintar al frésco; de las encarnaciones, de pulimento y de mate; del dorado, bruñido, y mate. Y enseña el modo de pintar todas las pinturas sagradas (Libreria de Leon Pablo Villaverde, 1871), by Francisco Pacheco and Mariano de La Roca y Delgado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Buch von der kunst, oder Tractat der Malerei des Cennino Cennini da Colle di Valdelsa. (W. Braumüller, 1888), by Cennino Cennini and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von der hochedlen Malerei. Tractat des Michel Angelo Biondo (Venedig 1549) (W. Braumüller, 1873), by Michelangelo Biondo and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• De' veri precetti della pittura (A. Forni, 1982), by Giovanni Battista Armenino and S. Ticozzi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of the art of Cennino Cennini : a contemporary practical treatise on quattrocento painting translated from the Italian, with notes on mediæval art methods (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1899), by Cennino Cennini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aretino : oder Dialog über Malerei (W. Braümuller, 1888), by Lodovico Dolce, Rudolf von Eitelberger von Edelberg, and Cajetan Cerri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst : anders de zichtbaere werelt. Verdeilt in negen Leerwinkels, yder bestiert door eene der zanggodinnen. Ten hoogsten noodzakelijk, tot onderwijs, voor alle die deeze edele, vrye, en hooge konst oeffenen, of met yver zoeken te leeren, of anders eenigzins beminnen (F. van Hoogstraeten, boekverkooper, 1678), by Samuel van Hoogstraten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philostratorum quae supersunt omnia : Vita Apollonii libris VIII. Vitae Sophistarum libris II. Heroica. Imagines priores atque posteriores et Epistolae. Accessere Apollonii Tyanensis Epistolae, Eusebii liber adversus Hieroclem, Callistrati descript. statuarum. Omnia ex mss. codd. recensuit notis perpetuis illustravit versionem totam fere novam fecit Gottfridus Olearius. (apud Thomam Fritsch, 1709), by Philostratus the Athenian, Gottfried Olearius, Sossianus Hierocles, 3rd or 4th cent Callistratus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and Apollonius, of Tyana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch von der kunst, oder Tractat der malerei des Cennino Cennini da Colle di Valdelsa. (W. Braumüller, 1871), by Cennino Cennini and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quellenschriften für Kunstgeschichte und Kunsttechnik des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. (Wilhelm Braumüller ;, 1871), by Rudolf von Eitelberger von Edelberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Idea del tempio della pittura di Gio. Paolo Lomazzo pittore. Nella quale egli discorre dell'origine, e fondamento delle cose contenute nel suo trattado dell'Arte della pittura. (P.G. Ponto, 1591), by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (page images at HathiTrust)
• De'veri precetti della pittora (Appresso F. Tebaldini, 1587), by Giovanni Battista Armenini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo della pittura (M. Nestenus, 1735), by Lodovico Dolce and Pietro Aretino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il riposo di Raffaello Borghini, in cvi della pittvra, e della scultura si fauella, de'piu illustri pittori, e scultori, et delle piu famose opere loro si fa mentione; e le cose principali appartenenti à dette arti s'insegnano. (Appresso Giorgio Marescotti, 1584), by Raffaello Borghini (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Aretino, dialogo della pittura, con l'aggiunta di varie rime e lettere. (Successori Le Monnier, 1910), by Lodovico Dolce and Guido Battelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trattato della nobiltà della pittura (Forni, 1984), by Romano Alberti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El museo pictorico, y escala óptica. Teórica de la pinture, en que se describe su origen, esencia, especies y qualidades, con todos los demas accidentes que la enriquecen é ilustran. Y se prueban con demonstraciones matematicas y filosoficas sus mas radicales fundamentos. (Imprenta de Sancha, 1795), by Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Élémens de peinture pratique (Chez Arkstée & Merkus, libraires ;, 1776), by Roger de Piles, Charles-Antoine Jombert, and Arkstée et Merkus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abregé de la vie des peintres : avec des reflexions sur leurs ouvrages, et un traité du peintre parfait : de la connoissance des desseins : de l'utilité des estampes (Chez Jacques Estienne ..., 1715), by Roger de Piles, Jacques Estienne, Antoine Coypel, and Charles Simonneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'idée du peintre parfait : pour servir de règle aux jugemens que l'on doit porter sur les ouvrages des peintres. (Chez François L'Honoré, 1736), by André Félibien, François L'Honoré, Jacob de Later, Jan Goeree, and Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedanken über die Schönheit und den Geschmack in der Malerey (Bey Orell, Gessner, Füesslin und Compagnie, 1771), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, Johann Caspar Fuessli, and Gessner Orell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., late president of the Royal Academy : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland (now first published), and his Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting : printed from his revised copies (with his last corrections and additions,) in two volumes : to which is prefixed An account of the life and writings of the author (Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies ..., 1797), by Joshua Reynolds, William Davies, T. Cadell, Caroline Watson, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, and Edmond Malone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions sur la peinture (Chez Gaspar Fritsch, 1775), by Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, Gaspar Fritsch, and M. Huber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Buch von der Kunst : oder Tractat der Malerei (W. Braumüller, 1871), by Cennino Cennini and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialoghi familiari sopra la pittura : difesa, ed esaltata (Per D. Antonio Valenza ..., 1788), by da San Biagio Fedele and Pio Onorato (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vier Gespräche über die Malerei Geführt zu Rom 1538. (C. Graeser, 1899), by Francisco de Hollanda and Joaquim de Vasconcellos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lezione di Filippo Baldinucci (Stamperia di P. Matini, 1692), by Filippo Baldinucci, Piero Matini, and Accademia della Crusca (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on painting written in Italian (Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1764), by Francesco Algarotti, Charles Reymers, and Lockyer Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Œuvres diverses concernant les arts (Chez Didot fils :, 1787), by Etienne Falconet, Alexandre Jombert, Pierre Didot, P. Ch Levesque, and Naturalis historia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogues sur les arts : entre un artiste ameriquain et un amateur françois. (Chez Duchesne, libraire ..., 1755), by Pierre Estève (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abregé de la vie des fameux peintres : avec leurs portraits gravés en taille-douce, les indications de leurs principaux ouvrages, quelques réflexions sur leurs caractéres, et la maniere de connoître les desseins des grands maîtres (Chez De Bure l'aîné ..., 1745), by A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville and Etienne Fessard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialoghi sopra le tre arti del disegno. ([s.n.], 1770), by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, Niccolò Berrettoni, Benoît Farjat, and Carlo Maratti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflexions critiques sur les différentes écoles de peinture. (Chez Rollin ..., Grangé ..., Bauche fils ..., 1752), by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera di Filippo Baldinvcci (Per Piero Matini ..., 1687), by Filippo Baldinucci and Piero Matini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio del conte Algarotti sull'architettura e sulla pittura. (Dalla Società tipografica de' classici italiani, contrada di S. Margherita, no. 1118, 1807), by Francesco Algarotti and Società tipografica de' classici italiani (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the beauties of painting : and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern (Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1777), by Daniel Webb and James Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem (Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649), by Vitruvius Pollio, Louis Elzevir, Henry Wotton, Claude Saumaise, Guillaume Philandrier, Louis de Montjosieu, Marcus Meibom, Joannes de Laet, Nikolaus Goldmann, Pomponio Gaurico, Daniel Barbaro, Bernardino Baldi, Leon Battista Alberti, and Georg Agricola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory of painting (Printed for T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1773), by Jonathan Richardson, Thomas Davies, and Jonathan Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Figino, overo, Del fine della pittvra : dialogo (Per Francesco Osanna ..., 1591), by Gregorio Comanini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Œuvres complètes d'Étienne Falconet, adjoint a recteur de la ci-devant Académie de peinture et sculpture de Paris, honoraire de celle de Saint-Pétersbourg, etc. : contenant la traduction des livres de Pline, concernant la peinture et la sculpture, avec des notes : des observations sur diverses opinions de cet auteur, et différens ouvrages sur les arts dans l'antiquité et chez les peuples modernes : précédées de la vie de Falconet (Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, 1808), by Etienne Falconet, P. Ch Levesque, and Pliny the Elder (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on painting (G. Bell & sons, 1877), by Leonardo da Vinci, John W. Brown, and J. F. Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• De' precetti della pittura libri IV. : in versi si aggiungono in prosa ... (Nella stamperia Turra, 1781), by Adamo Chiusole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vom Alter der Oelmalerey, aus dem Theophilus Presbyter. (In der Buchhandlung des Fürstlichen Waysenhauses, 1774), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Presbyter Theophilus, and Germany) Buchhandlung des Fürstlichen Waysenhauses (Braunschweig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso intorno alla scoltvra et pittvra (Appresso Christoforo Draconi, 1584), by Alessandro Lamo and Cristoforo Draconi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della pittura e della statua di Leonbatista Alberti. (Società tipografica de'Classici italiani, 1804), by Leon Battista Alberti, Girolamo Tiraboschi, and Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialoghi tra Claro, e Sarpiri per istruire chi desidera d'essere un eccellente pittore figurista. (Per Ferdinando Pisarri, 1778), by Carlo Antonio 1720- Pisarri and Ferdinando Pisarri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Graphice (Ex officina Endteriana, 1669), by Johannes Scheffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della nobiltà della pittura (Per Francesco Zannetti, 1585), by Romano Alberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natur und Kunst in Gemälden, Bildhauereyen, Gebäuden und Kupferstichen (Bey Rudolph Gräffer, 1770), by Franz Christoph Scheyb, Rudolph Grässer, Pierre Alexandre Wille, and Johann Christoph von Reinsperger (page images at HathiTrust)
• De pictvra, plastice, statvaria libri dvo (Sumptibus Ludovici Prost ..., 1627), by Jules César Boulenger and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de peinture par principes (Chez Jacques Estienne ..., 1708), by Roger de Piles and Pierre de Rochefort (page images at HathiTrust)
• La peinture : ode de Milord Telliab : traduite de l'anglois ([s.n.], 1753), by Louis Guillaume Baillet de Saint Julien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mahlerey : eine Ode (Zu finden bey Gottlieb August Lange, 1756), by Louis Guillaume Baillet de Saint Julien and Gottlieb August Lange (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the celebrated pieces of paintings : of the most eminent masters ancient and modern, with reflections upon the several foreign-schools of painting (Printed for D. Brown ..., S. Clark ..., and C. King ..., 1704), by John Elsum (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)
• Dell'arte pittorica libri VIII. : coll'aggiunta di Componimenti diversi (Presso Caroboli, e Pompeati Compagni, 1768), by Adamo Chiusole (page images at HathiTrust)
• La peinture : poëme : traduit du latin (Chez Morel ... :, 1740), by François-Marie de Marsy, Bernard Picart, and A.-G. Meusnier de Querlon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idee de la perfection de la peinture (de l'imprimerie de Iacqves Ysambart, 1662), by Roland Fréart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esame ragionato sopra la nobiltá della pittura e della scultura (Per Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola, 1783), by Niccola Passeri and Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle tre arti della pittura, scultura e architettura : orazione (Per Lelio dalla Volpe impressore dell' Instit. delle Scienze, 1767), by Girolamo Desideri and Petronio Dalla Volpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della pittvra (Per li Giunti, 1642), by Francesco Domenico Bisagno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ricerche sopra le bellezze della pittura e sul merito de' piu celebri pittori antichi e moderni (Antonio Zatta e figli, 1791), by Daniel Webb and Maria Quarin Stampalia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Most excellent art of painting (Printed for Robert Crofts, at the signe of the Crown in Chancery-Lane, under Serjeant's Inne, 1658), by William Sanderson, Robert Crofts, Anthony Van Dyck, Gerard Soest, Souse, George Faithorne, and William Faithorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'Académie de France etablie a Rome (Chez Merlin, libraire, rue de la Harpe à St. Joseph, 1769), by Francesco Algarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre du Sieur Le Blond de la Tour a un de ses amis contenant quelques instructions touchant la peinture (Par Pierre dv Coq ..., 1669), by Antoine de Latour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte da pintura, symmetria, e perspectiva (Na officina de Joaõ Baptista Alvares, 1767), by Philippe Nunes, Joaõ Baptista Alvares, and Philippe Nunes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité sur la peinture pour en apprendre la theorie, & se perfectionner dans la pratique (Chez la veuve de J. Pech & A. Pech ..., 1699), by Bernard Dupuy du Grez, Veuve de J. Pech & A. Pech, P. Duchesne, and Antoine Rivalz (page images at HathiTrust)
• La pittvra trionfante (Da Giouanni Alberti, 1615), by Giulio Cesare Gigli, il Giovane Palma, and Odoardo Fialetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arcadia pictórica en sueño, alegoría (Por Don Antonio de Sancha, 1789), by Francisco Preciado de la Vega and Antonio de Sancha (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie de Pierre Mignard, premiere peintre du roy (Chez Jean Boudout & Jacques Guerin, 1730), by Simon Philippe Mazière de Monville, François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, and Molière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two discourses. I. An essay on the whole art of criticism, as it relates to painting ... II. An argument in behalf of the science of a connoisseur; wherein is shewn the dignity, certainty, pleasure, and advantage of it. (Printed for W. Churchill ..., 1719), by Jonathan Richardson and William Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A schizzo on the genius of man : in which, among various subjects, the merit of Mr. Thomas Barker, the celebrated young painter of Bath, is particularly considered, and his pictures reviewed (Printed by R. Cruttwell and sold by G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London and all the booksellers in Bath, 1793), by Edward Harington and R. Cruttwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorsi sopra differenti soggetti. (Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1755), by Francesco Algarotti and Giovanni Battista Pasquali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte della pittura di Carlo Alfonso du Fresnoy (A spese di Giuseppe Monti Roisecco in Piazza Navona, 1775), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Giampietro Zanotti, Giuseppe Monti Roisecco, Ignazio Benedetti, and Francesco Algarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo pittore della maestà del re Cattolico Carlo III. (A spese Remondini di Venezia, 1783), by Anton Raphael Mengs, José Nicolás de Azara, and Remondini (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres familieres de M. Winckelmann : avec Les oeuvres de M. le Chevalier Mengs. ([publisher not identified], 1784), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Christian Gottlob Heyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pittvra di Leonbattista Alberti (Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547), by Leon Battista Alberti and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient art of painting (Printed by R. Hodgkinsonne, and are to be sold by Daniel Frere ..., 1638), by Franciscus Junius, Daniel Frere, and Richard Hodgkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo della pittvra, intitolato l'Aretino (Gabriel Giolito de'Ferrari, 1557), by Lodovico Dolce and Pietro Aretino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de peinture par principes (Du fonds de Jombert :, 1791), by Roger de Piles, Firmin Didot, Théophile Barrois, and Alexandre Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• De pictura ([s.n.] ;, 1540), by Leon Battista Alberti, Bartholomeus Westheimer, and Thomas Venatorius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte de la pintura, su antiguedad, y grandezas (por Simon Faxardo ... , 1649), by Francisco Pacheco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogue sur la peinture de Lovis Dolce, intitulè l'Aretin (Michele Nestenus e Francesco Moücke, 1735), by Lodovico Dolce, Nicolas Vleughels, and Pietro Aretino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo di pittura di messer Paolo Pino (Per Pauolo Gherardo, 1548), by Paolo Pino (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of painting (Printed for J. Senex ... and W. Taylor ..., 1721), by Leonardo da Vinci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conferences de l'Academie royale de peintvre et de scvlptvre, pendant l'année 1667 (Chez Frederic Leonard ..., 1669), by André Félibien and Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Œuvres complètes d'Antoine-Raphaël Mengs, premier peintre du roi d'Espagne, &c. : contenant differéns traités sur la theorie de la peinture : traduite de l'italien. (Chez Moutard, libraire-imprimeur de la reine, & de l'Académie des sciences, Hôtel de Cluni, rue des Mathurins, 1787), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Nicolas-Léger Moutard, and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discvrsos apologeticos (Por Luis Sanchez., 1626), by Juan de Butrón and Luis Sánchez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idea del tempio della pittvra (per Paolo Gottardo Pontio, 1590), by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais sur la peinture (Chez Fr. Buisson ..., 1795), by Denis Diderot and François Buisson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogos de la pintura (Impresso con licencia por Frco. Martinez, 1633), by Vicente Carducho (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the art of Cennino Cennini : a contemporary practical treatise on Quattrocento painting (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1899), by Cennino Cennini, Christiania Jane Powell Herringham, and Christiana Jane Powell Herringham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Buch von der Malerei (W. Braumüller, 1882), by Leonardo da Vinci and Heinrich Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lionardo da Vinci: das buch von der malerei. (Kohlhammer, 1885), by Leonardo da Vinci and Heinrich Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philostrati maioris Imagines (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1893), by Philostratus the Athenian, the Lemnian Philostratus, Karl Schenkl, and Otto Benndorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il riposo di Raffaello Borghini. (Società tipografica de'Classici italiani, 1807), by Raffaello Borghini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci (Appresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651), by Leonardo da Vinci, Leon Battista Alberti, Cosimo Bartoli, and Raphael Trichet du Fresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lionardo da Vinci della pittura (In Parigi, appresso Giacomo Langlois, stampatore ordinario del Re Cristianissimo ..., 1733), by Leonardo da Vinci, Leon Battista Alberti, Nicolas Poussin, Cosimo Bartoli, Raphael Trichet du Fresne, and Francesco Sesoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avvertimenti e regole circa l'architettura civile, scultura, pittura, prospettiva, et architettura militare per offesa, e difesa di fortezze (Per Pandolfo Malatesta ..., 1620), by Pietro Antonio Barca and Pandolfo Malatesta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Œuvres complètes d'Antoine-Raphaël Mengs ... : contenant différens traités sur la théorie de la peinture, traduit de l'Italien. (A l'Hôtel de Thou ..., 1786), by Anton Raphael Mengs and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obras de D. Antonio Rafael Mengs, primer pintor de cámara del rey (En la Imprenta Real ..., 1797), by Anton Raphael Mengs and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical essay on the original of painting : wherein is exhibited ... (Printed for J. Worrall ..., 1728), by Henry Bell and John Worrall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il riposo di Raffaello Borghini. (Dai torchi Pazzini Carli, 1787), by Raffaello Borghini and Pazzini Carli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regras de arte da pintura, com breves reflexo̲es cri̲ticas sobre os caracteres distintivos de suas escolas, vidas, e quadros de seus mais ce̲lebres professores. (Imprensa da Universidade, 1922), by Michelangelo Prunetti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on painting (G. Bell & sons, 1897), by Leonardo da Vinci, John William Brown, and J. F. Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la pintura antigua ([J. Ratés, impresor], 1921), by Francisco de Hollanda, Elías Tormo y Monzó, and Manuel Denis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur la sculpture : suivi d'un catalogue des artistes les plus fameux de l'Ecole française (chez Desaint, 1765), by Michel François Dandré-Bardon, Pierre-Alexandre Le Prieur, and Jean Desaint (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de peinture (Chez Nicolas L'Anglois, ruë Saint Jacques à la Victoire, 1668), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, François Muguet, Nicolas Langlois, and Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aanmerkingen over de werken vande voornaamste schilders (By Balthasar Lakeman ..., 1725), by Roger de Piles, Balthasar Lakeman, and Joannes Verhoek (page images at HathiTrust)
• An idea of the perfection of painting: demonstrated from the principles of art, and by examples conformable to the observations, which Pliny and Quintilian have made upon the most celebrated pieces of the antient painters, parallel'd with some works of the most famous modern painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Julio Romano, and N. Poussin. (In the Savoy, printed for Henry Herringman..., 1668), by Roland Fréart, Henry Herringman, and John Evelyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imagines, Ottonis Benndorfii et Caroli Schenkelii consilio et opera adivti recensvervnt Seminariorvm vindobonensivm sodales. (In aedibvs B. G. Tevbneri, 1893), by Philostratus the Athenian, the Lemnian Philostratus, Karl Schenk, and Otto Benndorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gli elementi di pittura per la prima volta pubblicati. Con un discorso sulla parte avuta dall'Alberti nel rimettere in onore la lingua italiana nel secolo XV (Tip. Bimbi, 1864), by Leon Battista Alberti and Girolamo Mancini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de la peinture de ... mis en lumière pour la première fois avec des notes par le Chevalier J. Tambroni (Vve. Jules Renouard, Lille, L. Lefort, 1858), by Cennino Cennini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurtzer Unterricht, Observationes und Regulen von der Mahlereÿ. ([Bröderna Lagerströms Förlag], 1918), by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and Gunnar Mascoll Silfverstolpe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il Trattato della pittura e i cinque ordine architettonici (R. Carabba, 1913), by Leon Battista Alberti and Giovanni Papini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il libro dell'arte. Edizione riveduta e corretta sui codici (R. Carabba, 1913), by Cennino Cennini and Renzo Simi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Buch von der Malerei. (W. Braumüller, 1882), by Leonardo da Vinci and Heinrich Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opere di A. Raffaello Mengs su le belle arti (Milano : Per Giovanni Silvestri, MDCCCXXXVI [1836], 1836), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Carlo Fèa, and José Nicolás de Azara (page images at HathiTrust)
• La réforme de la peinture. (Chez Jean Briard ..., 1681), by Jacques Restout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to the Hon. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of painters and engravers (Sold by T. and J. Egerton, Whitehall :, 1792), by Jonathan Richardson and Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stephani Nigri elega[n]tissime è greco author[um] subditor[um] tra[n]slationes : uidelicet, Philostrati Icones, Pythagore̜ Carme[n] aureu[m], Athene̜i collectanea, Musonij philosophi Tyrij de pri[n]cipe optîmo, Isocratis d[e] regis muneribus or[?]o, & alia ... (imp. Io. de Castelliono, 1521), by Stephanus Niger and Philostratus the Athenian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abregé de la vie des peintres, avec des réflexions sur leurs ouvrages. (Arkstée & Merkus;, 1767), by Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il riposo di Raffaello Borghini. (Per Michele Nestenus e Francesco Moücke, 1730), by Raffaello Borghini, Cosimo Mogalli, Theodor Verkruys, Mauro Soderini, Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, and Antonio Maria Biscioni (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)
• El tratado de la pintura (En la Imprenta real, 1784), by Leonardo da Vinci, José del Castillo, Juan Barcelon, Diego Antonio Rejón de Silva, and Leon Battista Alberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Aretino : ovvero, Dialogo della pittura di Lodovico Dolce con l'aggiunta della lettere del Tiziano a vari e dell'Aretino a lui. (A. Forni, 1974), by Lodovico Dolce, approximately 1488-1576 Titian, and Pietro Aretino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Diversarum artium schedula (Wilhelm Braunmüller, 1874), by Presbyter Theophilus, Hermann Hagen, and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riflessioni su l'arte della pittura (Stamperia Imperiale, 1804), by Daniel Webb and Francesco Pizzetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Œuvres de M. le chevalier Antoine Raphael Mengs. (Chez Pissot, libraire, Quai des Augustins :, 1781), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Victor Desenne, Noël-Jacques Pissot, and Hendrik Jansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inleyding tot de praktyk der algemeene schilderkonst : waer in neffens de heerlykheyd en nuttigheyd der zelve, kortelyk werd aengewezen, wat dingen tot grondig verstand der schilderkonst behooren geweten ten zyn : als ook op wat wyze men syn oeffening, om daer in een volkomen meester te worden, behoorlyk aenleggen zal (By Joseph de Busscher, boekdrukker en boekverkooper ..., in the 1770s), by Willem Goeree and Joseph de Busscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les beautés de la peinture et sur le mérite des plus celèbres peintres anciens & modernes. (Chez Briasson, rue Saint Jacques, à la Science & à l'Ange Gardien, 1765), by Daniel Webb and Antoine-Claude Briasson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the beauties of painting, and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern (Printed by Sarah Cotter ..., 1764), by Daniel Webb and Sarah Cotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la sculpture : suivi d'un catalogue des artistes les plus fameux de l'Ecole française (Chez Saillant, libraire ..., 1765), by Michel François Dandré-Bardon, Pierre-Alexandre Le Prieur, and Charles Saillant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of painting (Printed for Henry Lintot, 1750), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Simon Gribelin, Richard Graham, and John Dryden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur la peinture a l'encaustique et sur la peinture a la cire (A Geneva ; Et se vend à Paris : Chez Pissot Libraire, à la Croix d'Or, Quai de Conti, M.D. CC. LV. [1755], 1755), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus and M. Majault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuche über die Mahlerey (Bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1797), by Denis Diderot, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, and Carl Friedrich Cramer (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'idea del perfetto pittore : per servire regole nel guidicio, che si deve formare intorno alle opere de' pittori : accresciuto della maniera di dipingere sopra la porcellana, smalto, vetro, metalli, e pietre, ec. (Presso Francesco Locatelli a San Bartolommeo, 1772), by Roger de Piles and Francesco Locatelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orazione di Giambattista Alessandro Moreschi, in lode della pittura, della scultura, e dell' architettura : recitata nell' Instituto delle scienze per la solenne distribuzione dei premj, il dì 25. giugno 1781. (Nella stamperìa di S. Tommaso d'Aquino, 1781), by Giambattista Alessandro Moreschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quatro diálogos da pintura antiga : Francisco de Hollanda, Miguel Angelo, Vittoria Colonna, Lattanzio Tolomei, interlocutores em Roma. (Publica Joaquim de Vasconcellos, 1896), by Francisco de Hollanda and Michelangelo Buonarroti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Buch von der Malerei nach dem Codex Vaticanus (Urbinas) 1270 (W. Braumüller, 1882), by Leonardo da Vinci and Heinrich Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, late president of the Royal Academy : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting : printed from his revised copies, (with his last corrections and additions,) in three volumes : to which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author (Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies ..., 1798), by Joshua Reynolds, William Davies, T. Cadell, Caroline Watson, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, and Edmond Malone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schreiben an Herrn Anton Pons (Bey Rudolph Gräffer, 1778), by Anton Raphael Mengs, Rudolph Gräffer, and Antoine Pons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchung des Schönen in der Mahlerey : und der Verdienste der berühmtesten a. und n. Mahlern (Bey Orell, Gessner, Füesslin und Comp., 1771), by Daniel Webb, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Gessner Orell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von den Farben und Künsten der Römer : Originaltext und Übersetzung (Wilhelm Braumüller, 1873), by Eraclius and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de peindre : traduction libre en vers françois, du poème latin de Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, avec des remarques (De l'Imprimerie de monsieur, 1789), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Antoine Renou, and Imprimerie de Monsieur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, etching (printed for Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the Strand, over against Ivie-Bridge; and William Battersby, at Thavie's Inne Gate in Holborn, near S. Andrew's Church, 1675), by Alexander Browne, Abraham Bloemaert, Odoardo Fialetti, Jacob Huysmans, and Arnold de Jode (page images at HathiTrust)
• I dialoghi michelangioleschi (Maglione e Strini, 1926), by Francisco de Hollanda and Michelangelo Buonarroti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conferences de l'Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Chez David Mortier ..., 1705), by Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France) and J.-F. Félibien des Avaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité élémentaire de la peinture (Chez Deterville, libraire, rue du Battoir, no. 16, 1803), by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Crapelet, Jean-François-Pierre Deterville, Pierre François Giffart, Raphael Trichet du Fresne, Roland Fréart, and Nicolas Poussin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le moyen de devenir peintre en trois heures, et d'exécuter au pinceau les ouvrages des plus grands maîtres, sans avoir appris le dessein. (Chez les Libraires associés, 1755), by F. X. Vispré (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'idea del perfetto pittore : per servire di regola nel giudicio che si deve formare intorno alle opere de' pittori : accresciuto della maniera di dipingere sopra la porcellana, smalto, vetro, metalli, e pietre, ec. (Appresso Beltramo Antonio Re, librajo sotto i portici del Palazzo della Città, 1769), by Roger de Piles and Beltramo Antonio Re (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte de la pintura su antigüedad y grandezas : describense los hombres eminentes que ha habido en ella y sus preceptos, del dibujo y colorido, del pintar al temple y al óleo, de la iluminacion y estofado, del pintar al fresco, de las encarnaciones, de pulimento y de mate, del dorado, bruñido y mate, y enseña el modo de pintar todas las pinturas sagradas (D. Leon Pablo Villaverde, 1871), by Francisco Pacheco (page images at HathiTrust)
• El tratado de la pintura (Imprenta Real, 1827), by Leonardo da Vinci, Diego Antonio Rejón de Silva, and Leon Battista Alberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elémens de perspective pratique, à l'usage des artistes : suivis de réflexions et conseils à un élève sur la peinture, et particulièrement sur le genre du paysage (Chez l'auteur ... :, 1800), by Pierre Henri de Valenciennes and Delettre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scrittori di belle arti : Carlo Ruberto Dati, Luigi Lanzi, Francesco Algarotti. (N. Bettoni, 1831), by Francesco Algarotti, Luigi Lanzi, and Smarrito (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'architettvra (Appresso L. Torrentino, 1565), by Leon Battista Alberti, Lodovico Domenichi, and Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books (A presso Tommaso Edlin, 1739), by Leon Battista Alberti, Thomas Edlin, Giacomo Leoni, and Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktisches Werk von der Mahlerey (Nürnberg : In der Christoph Weigel und A.G. Schneiderischen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1786., 1786), by Leonardo da Vinci, Johann Georg Böhm, and Schneider und Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité du paysage (Paris : Librairie Delagrave, 1927., 1927), by Leonardo da Vinci and Joséphin Péladan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philostrati maioris Imagines (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1893), by Philostratus the Athenian, the Lemnian Philostratus, Karl Schenkl, and Otto Benndorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• El tratado de la pintura (in Spanish), by Leon Battista Alberti and da Vinci Leonardo, trans. by Diego Antonio Rejón de Silva (Gutenberg ebook)
• De arte graphica. English (London : Printed by J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers ..., 1695), by Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, John Dryden, and Richard Graham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Idée de la perfection de la peinture. English (In the Savoy : Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1668), by Roland Fréart and John Evelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De pictura veterum libri tres. English (London : Printed by Richard Hodgkinsonne; and are to be sold by Daniel Frere, at the signe of the Bull in Little-Britain, 1638), by Franciscus Junius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A short introduction to the art of painting and varnishing (London : printed for George Dawes, over against Lincolns-Inn-Gate, in Chancery-Lane, 1685), by John Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching to which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest and most exact grounds and rules of symetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ... (London : Printed by J. Redmayne for the author, and are to be sold by him ... and Richard Tompson ... and Arthur Tooker ..., 1669), by Alexander Browne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A very proper treatise, wherein is breefely set forth the art of limming whiche teacheth the order in drawing & tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes, and imagery, and the maner how to make sundrye syses or groundes to lay siluer or golde vpon, and how siluer or golde shall be layed or limmed vpon the syse, and the waye to temper golde and siluer and other mettals and diuerse kyndes of colours to write or to limme withall vppon velym, parchment or paper, and how to lay them vppon the worke which thou entendest to make, and how to vernishe it when thou hast done, with diuerse other thinges verye meete and necessary to be knowne to all such gentlemen, and other persons as do delight in limming, paynting, or in tricking of armes in their coulors, and therfore a worke very meete to be adioyned to the bookes of armes. (Imprinted at London : By Thomas Purfoote, the assigne of Richard Tottill, 1583) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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