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Yet so highly necessary is this of Drawing to all who pretend to these noble, and refined Arts ; that for the securing of this Foundation, and the promotion and encouragement of it, the greatest Princes of Europe, have erected Academies, furnished with all conveniencies, for the exercice, and improvement of the Virtuosi : Such illustrious and noble Genius’s were Cosimo di Medices, Francis the First, Carlo Borromeo, and others, who built, or appointed for them, Stately Appartiments even in their own Palaces, and under the same Roofe : procuring Models, and endowing them with Charters, Enfranchisements, and ample Honoraries ; by which they attracted to their Courts, and Countries most of the refin’d, and extraordinary spirits in all the Arts and Sciences that were then celebrated throughout the World.
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And to This, and to the obtaining the Benefits to the Publick consequent thereupon, what I have Been pleading for would greatly contribute : For if our Nobility, and Gentry were Lovers, and Connoisseurs, Publick Encouragement, and Assistance would be given to the Art [ndr : en Angleterre] ; Academies would be set up, Well Regulated, and the Government of them put into Such Hands, as would not want Authority to maintain those Laws, without which no Society can Prosper, or long Subsist. These Academies would then be well provided of all Necessaries for Instruction in Geometry, Perspective, and Anatomy, as well as Designing, for without a competent Proficiency in the three former, no considerable Progress can be made in the Other. They would then be furnished with Good Masters to Direct the Students, and good Drawings, and Figures, whether Casts, or Originals, Antique, or Modern for their Imitation. Nor should these be consider’d merely as Schools, or Nurseries for Painting [ndr : il s’agit en fait du terme Painters et non de Painting, cf l’Errata, au début de l’ouvrage], and Sculptors, and other Artists of That kind, but as places for the better Education of Gentlemen, and to Complete the Civilizing, and Polishing of our People, as our Other Schools, and Universities, and the Other means of Instruction are.
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In order to give this Just Representation of Nature […] I say in order to follow Nature exactly, a Man must be well acquainted with Nature, and have a reasonable Knowledge of Geometry, Proportion, (which must be varied according to the Sex, Age, and Quality of the Person) Anatomy, Osteology, and Perspective. I will add to these an Acquaintance with the Works of the best Painters, and Sculptors, Ancient, and Modern : For ‘tis a certain Maxim, No Man sees what things Are, that knows not what they Ought to be.
That this Maxim is true, will appear by an Academy Figure drawn by one ignorant in the Structure, and knitting of the Bones, and Anatomy, compar’d with another who understands these throughly :