Lectures on Art

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Selected Conférences from the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667–1772 Edited by Christian Michel and Jacqueline LichtensteinTranslated by Chris Miller Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Académie’s conférences, foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody guided artistic practice and art theory in France and throughout Europe for two centuries.In the…