Lectures on Art - Selected Conferences from the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667- 1772

Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Acade mie's 'confe rences', foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the p...