Excerpt from The Grammar of Painting and Engraving: Translated From the French of Blanc's Grammaire Des Arts Du Dessin The art-education Of the young is completely null. The proud and brilliant laureate finishes his classical studies without getting the least tincture of it. He knows the history of the ancient Greeks, their cap tains, their orators, and their philosophers; has read of their intestine quarrels and their grand Persian wars, but he knows neither their sublime ideas upon painting and statuary, nor their adorable marble gods and their divine temples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.