Excerpt from The Arts and Artists, or Anecdotes and Relics of the Schools of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Vol. 1<br><br>The following compilation was undertaken at the instance of a friend who conceived the compiler's general reading qualified him for the task. He has endeavoured to mix the useful with the agreeable, and to inform and entertain by turns. In fact, to make it a work of light reading for the study of the artist, and. The library table of the amateur.<br><br>The greater portion of the articles are extracts from an immense number of book 3, some are on dim-and a few original.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.