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See also:FRESNOY, See also:CHARLES See also:ALPHONSE DU (1611—1665) , See also:French painter and writer on his See also:art, was See also:born in See also:Paris, son of an See also:apothecary. He was destined for the medical profession, and well educated in Latin and See also:Greek; but, having a natural propensity for the See also:fine arts, he would not apply to his intended vocation, and was allowed to learn the rudiments of See also:design under Perrier and See also:Vouet. At the See also:age of twenty-one he went off to See also:Rome, with no resources; he See also:drew ruins and architectural subjects. After two years thus spent he re-encountered his old See also:fellow-student See also:Pierre See also:Mignard, and by his aid obtained some amelioration of his professional prospects. He studied See also:Raphael and the See also:antique, went in 1633 to See also:Venice, and in 1656 returned to See also:France. During two years he was now employed in See also:painting See also:altar-pieces in the See also:chateau of Raincy, landscapes, &c. His See also:death was caused by an attack of See also:apoplexy followed by palsy; he expired at See also:Villiers le See also:Bel, near Paris. He never married. His pictorial See also:works are few; they are correct in See also:drawing, with something of the See also:Caracci in design, and of See also:Titian in colouring, but wanting See also:fire and expression, and insufficient to keep his name in any eminent repute. He is remembered now almost entirely as a writer rather than painter. His Latin poem, De arte graphica, was written during his See also:Italian sojourn, and embodied his observations on the art of painting; it may be termed a See also:critical See also:treatise on the practice of the art, with See also:general See also:advice to students. The precepts are See also:sound according to the See also:standard of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; the poetical merits slender enough. The Latin See also:style is formed chiefly on See also:Lucretius and See also:Horace. This poem was first published by Mignard, and has been translated into several See also:languages. In 1684 it was turned into French by See also:Roger de Piles; See also:Dryden translated the See also:work into See also:English See also:prose; and a rendering into See also:verse by See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason followed, to which See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds added some annotations.
End of Article: FRESNOY, CHARLES ALPHONSE DU (1611—1665)
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