# Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy

Author: Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825

Genre: Category: Art

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71154

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## Summary

It cannot be considered as superfluous or assuming to present the reader of the following lectures, with a succinct characteristic sketch of the principal technic instruction, ancient and modern, which we possess: I say, a sketch, for an elaborate and methodical survey, or a plan well digested and strictly followed, would demand a volume. These observations, less written for the man of letters and cultivated taste, than for the student who wishes to inform himself of the history and progress of his art, are to direct him to the sources from which my principles are deduced, to enable him, by comparing my authors with myself, to judge how far the theory which I deliver, may be depended on a...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lectures-on-painting-delivered-at-the-royal-academy-71154/chapters/6/index.md)