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L'esprit des beaux arts

Estève, Pierre, approximately 1720- · 1753 · Paris : Chez C.J. Baptiste Bauche fils, libraire, à l'Image Ste Genevieve, Quay des Augstins · 6 pictures

L'esprit des beaux arts is a 1753 Paris treatise on aesthetics by Pierre Estève, published by C.J. Baptiste Bauche fils for readers of philosophy and the fine arts. Its pictures are small black printed ornaments: rococo cartouches, scrolls, rosettes and lattice fillers set in the text, with a designer able to borrow their symmetrical frames, lacy diaper patterns and compact decorative units for period-styled borders and panels.

Aesthetics · Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 · Art -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800 · Art -- Philosophy

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