The art of painting according to the theory and practise of the best Italian, French, and Germane masters. Treating of the antiquity of painting. The reputation it always had. The characters of several masters. Proportion. Action and passion. The effects of light. Perspective. Draught. Colouring. Ordonnance. Far more compleat and compendious then hath yet been publisht by any, antient or modern. The second edition. By M.S. gent.

By Reason some through the prejudice of Education and yet of good Ingenious Parts, may find some difficulty in Terms of Art, and other Words in this Book, I thought fit (for their Benefit) to subjoyn the Explanation of them.

• ATtitudes. Actions, or Postures.
• Aenigmatical; full of Riddles.
• Accumulate; to heap up.
• Allective; Alluring.
• Altercation; Wrangling.
• Amfractuous; Broken.
• Anatomatize; to cut up.
• Analogical; Proportionable.
• Anoptica; Looking up.
• Apex; the Top of any thing.
• Bacchanalization; the Drunken Feasts. of Bacchus.
• Beatitudes; Blessings.
• Catoptica; Looking downwards.
• Chiaro Scuro; Placing of Lights.
• Concretion; Joyning togather.
• Convex; Round.
• Cosmographicall; writing of the world.
• Contours; Out-Lines.
• Contrast; strengthening togather.
• Dulcisonant; Sweet sounding.
• Diaphanous; Transparent.
• Diaphonus; Jarring.
• Dilatory; Tedious.
• Diapente; a Fifth in Musick.
• Diapason; an Eight in Musick.
• Diatesseron; a Fourth.
• Dilation; an Enlarging.
• Diagonally; From Corner to Corner.
• Expansion; a laying open.
• Exornation; an Adorning.
• Exitial; Distructive.
• Entity; Being.
• Eleimosinary; Charitable.
• Efflux; a Flowing out.
• Ebullition a Boyling up.
• Epileptici; given to the Falling Sicknes.
• Empaste; to lay well in.
• Elevation a Lifting up.
• Group; a Knot of Figures togather.
• Homiomaere; a Likeness in Parts.
• Hydrographical; writing of the Ocean, &c.
• Hypothesis; the Argument of a discourse.
• Hatching; striking strokes as in Gra∣ving.
• Idea; the Form of any thing.
• Ineffable Unspeakable.
• Intersection; cutting off.
• Ichnography; ground Plot.
• Monopolist; one that Ingrosseth all of a sort or Kind.
• Monochroma; one Colour.
• Matempsychosis; passing of soules from one body to another.
• Occult; Hidden.
• Oeconomists; Governours.
• Osteology; Discoursing of the Bones.
• Optica; Sight foreright.
• Proditorious; betraying.
• Prototypon; the first Pattern.
• Paripateticks; Followers of Aristotle.
• Physiological; discoursing of Natural Causes.
• Protracted; Prolonged.
• Protuberant; Swelling up.
• Physical; Natural.
• Profile; Represeutation of Heights Depths &c.
• Ratiocination; Reasoning.
• Relievo; An Emboss'd Figure.
• Refracted; broken open.
• Speculative: Contemplative.
• Superficies; the Surface of any thing.
• Symmetrical; Proportionable.
• Sesquialter; so much and half as much more.
• Suprabipartient more then divided in two.
• Sesquioctava; an eighth part above the whole.
• Sciographica; Plat-Form or Draught.
• Scheme; a Form.
• Tone; a Tune, or Harmony.
• Teints; Tincktures, touches of Colours.
• Vertigious; Giddy.
• Zenith; the point directly over our heads.