Rudolf Erich Raspe

A Critical Essay on Oil-painting; Proving That the Art of Painting in Oil Was Known Before the Pretended Discovery of John and Hubert Van Eyck; to Which Rudolf Erich Raspe

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT140375London: printed for the author, by H. Goldney; and sold by T. Cadell, 1781. vii, [1],148p., plate; 4 Contributor Bio:  Raspe, Rudolf Erich Rudolf Erich Raspe was a German librarian, writer and scientist, called by his biographer John Carswell a rogue. He is best known for his collection of tales, The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen.