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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	queen_n	22,548	5	7.7438	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94194	Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq;	Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing S648; Thomason E1077_2; ESTC R208648	74,435	105

many added to this Art The first inventing the due disposition of Lights in the draught and evermore with ampler Limbs then the Life Homer set out so his gods 〈◊〉 goddesses with large formes and features as aforesaid Then they came to limit Proportions exactly as Law-makers whom others followed as decrees About the time of Philip Painting began to flourish and so to the successors of Alexander for we have severall of those antient Artizans set out to us for their excellencies in sundry of those Abilities which we have named as Pictegenes in Diligence Pamphilus Melanchius in Proportion Antiphylus in Facility Theon in Fantasie and Passions Apelles in Invention and Grace Euphranor a rare Artizan as in Generall so in Painting How to dispose of Pictures and Paintings ANd now supposing that you have purchased the most costly Pieces we must next consider how to dispose them properly with Conveniencie and Grace for the adornment of your House We shall not doubt the Question whether Painting becomes out-sides of walls of the House In imitation of the Germain Caecill Viscount Wimbleton sometime generall of the English in the Dutch Warrs seems to intend the beautifying pleasant Scite and gracefull Edifice at Wimbleton with large and ample figures without doors in Fresco and Stoke parke in Northampton they are done by claine And Carew House at Parsons Green large and bold but almost decayed though but lately done Some Towns are done so amongst the Germains but then not with glaring Colours that were to please common judgments I have observed other Pieces in England not many for indeed the worke is soon lost upon a moist Wall which in our Clime necessarily follows That excellent Painting of the two Kings Henry the seaventh and eighth with their Queens done upon the Wall in the Privy Chamber of the late KING at White-Hall in Oyle only by the rare hand of Holben hath been preserved with continuall warmth within doors and benefit of fire even till now But withall I observe the Wall prim'd with a very thick Compost of Playster and some other mixture fixed to preserve the worke Therefore I admit of no Colouring upon Walls If any Draugh●●●●en let them be Black and White or of one Colour hightn●● 〈◊〉 Figures of Life Men and Women Or otherwise Nakeds as large as the place will afford If without Personages I wish it of Counterfeits or imitations of Marbles Aquae-ducts Arches Columns Ruines Cataracts in large proportions bold and high and to be well done for fear of Lamenesse which is soon discerned Of Grotesco AS for Grotesco or as we say Antique-worke It takes my fancy though in forms of different Natures or Sexes Sirenes Centaures and such like as the outward walls of White-Hall observes this kind as running-trale worke and not ill mastered But when all is done now a dayes it looks like an Ale-house Citizen painting being too common and usually else-vvhere were very ill wrought Excellent prints of this kind were lost at Sea of Steven de Labella And if Poets devise these double Natur'd-Creatures why not the Painters who can do what the other but bespeake But in true Judgment I would confine Grotesco only to Borders and Freezes then it may become the Wall within or without doores Here a Print of Grotesco should have been inserted Of Fresco THere is a Painting upon Walls called Fresco It was the ancient Graecians Noble way of Painting and since much used by the Romans Plutarch tells us That Aratus the great Commander under Ptolemie of Aegypt being curious to satisfie his Soveraign's delight in Pictures presented him with such Rarities as his Victories made him Master of or that he could purchase at any price and in a Complement to the Emperour's affection that way spared the sacking of a wealthy Citty meerly for the Excellency of Fresco-Painting upon the Wall and out side of Houses lest the unruly Souldier by Fire or otherwayes should ruine the raritie There have been PAINTINGS of this worke in severall Towns of GERMANY rarely done but now ruined by Warre At Rome there are three Chambers in the Popes Pallace of Frescoe done by Raphael Urbin and Julio Romano his disciple who finished his Master's vvorke and are yet called Raphaells designes Other places done by Andrea dél sexto and Michael Angelo and some other Artists At Fountain-bleau in France is most excellent worke of this kind they are the continued Travails of Ulysses in 60. Pieces done by Bollameo Martin Rouse a Florentine and others But more of this hereafter when we shew the manner and order of this worke in the second Book To place the Pictures within Doors LEt us therefore contrive our Pictures within doors spare your purse and pains not to Clutter the Room with too many Pieces unlesse in Galleries and Repositories as rarityes of severall Artizans intermingled otherwise it becomes only a Painters-Shop for choyce of sale Place your best Pieces to be seen with single lights Thorough Lights on both sides or double windows at each end are Enemies to the view of Painting for then the shadows fall not naturall being alwayes made to answer one Light Observe in their placing as you may see how the Painter stood in his working the light of the windows to fall upon the right side of the worke from whence their Shadows alwayes fall backward The Italian's evermore stand low beneath their high windows so then the shadows in his figures have that respect as a descending light best for mens faces and shews them lively and generally low Lights to large Pieces do prejudice Paintings Then bestow them orderly and in their Qualities properly and fitly for Ornaments lest your cost and discretion be cast away at once In the entrance of your house or Porch with some Rustique figures or things rurall The Hall with Paintings of Neat-heards Pesants Shep-heards Milke-maides attending Cattle in proper degrees some other also of Kitchenry severall sorts of Foul and Fish sitted for the Cooking Pictures becomes the sides of your Staire-case when the grace of a Painting invites your guest to breathe and stop at the ease-pace and to delight him with some Ruine or Building which may at a view as he passes up be observed And a Piece over-head to cover the Sieling at the top-landing to be fore-shortned in figures looking downward out of the Clouds with Garlands or Cornu-Copia's to bid wellcome The Great Chamber with Landskips Huntings Fishing Fowling or History of Notable actions The Dyning-Roome with the most eminent a King and Queen if possibly to be purchased at any rate I mean their Pictures rarely done the want whereof in former times were supplyed onely with the Court-Arms of their Majesties few good subjects then but conceived it expedient to express their Love and Loyalty by some such Embleme or note of remembrance But then in reverence to their Persons forbear to place any other Pictures of