WITH FORE-EDGE DECORATION
Traité de perspective, Où sont contenus les fondemens de la Peinture.
Paris.
Chez Anisson Directeur de l'Imprimerie Royale ruë de la Harpe, 1701.
First edition.
8vo.
xxi, [3], 227pp, [9]. With eight engraved plates (one folding) and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary gilt-tooled vellum. With fore-edge decoration comprised of a charming repeating floral pattern. Extremities a trifle rubbed and discoloured. Marbled endpapers, marginal loss to lower corners of leaves G1 and K2, else internally clean and crisp.
A handsomely bound copy of the first edition of French Oratorian, mathematician, and theologian Bernard Lamy's (1640-1715) profusely illustrated treatise on the fundamentals of the art of painting, perspective in particular.
Lamy places primary importance on the use of colour and geometric and catoptric techniques; emphasising the opportunity for mathematicians to collaborate with artists as they are able to contribute to the rigorous application of perspective, which Lamy deems the foundation of painting. The work concludes with a dialogue from Xenophon, in which Socrates, the painter Parrhasius, and the sculptor Clito debate the artistic process.
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 32692
Lamy places primary importance on the use of colour and geometric and catoptric techniques; emphasising the opportunity for mathematicians to collaborate with artists as they are able to contribute to the rigorous application of perspective, which Lamy deems the foundation of painting. The work concludes with a dialogue from Xenophon, in which Socrates, the painter Parrhasius, and the sculptor Clito debate the artistic process.
