DRAWINGS CONCERNING ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES IN THE DIDEROT’S AND D’ALEMBERT’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA
DRAWINGS CONCERNING ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES IN THE DIDEROT’S AND D’ALEMBERT’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Author(s): Emanuela Chiavoni
Subject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, History of ideas
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: History of scientific drawings; Artistic techniques; Diderot’s and D’Alembert’s Encyclopaedia;
Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyse some drawings relating to the artistic techniques in the first volume of the Diderot’s Encyclopaedia (1751). The Encyclopaedia is still now considered the laic bible of the century of the lights. It has been selected some of the most significant pictures concerning to drawing,painting, mosaic, sculpture and engraving, showing the rich interconnections between these different kinds of art and the drawing, from whom all of them was born.

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