Identifier: dictionariumpoly00barr (find matches)
Title: Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ... : illustrated with fifty-six copper plates
Year: 1758 (1750s)
Authors: Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750 Devoto, John, fl. 1719-1752 Hitch, Charles, d. 1764 Hawes, Lacy
Subjects: Arts Industrial arts
Publisher: London : Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-noster-Row : J. Hinton, in Newgate-Street : and L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Gray's Inn
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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.B ^ ^ ^jt of Antwerp, was advifed by Peter Paul Rubens to apply himfelf to engraving j he engraved the works of the faidKubens, as alfo thofe of Raphael and Vandyke. Martin De VOS, born in the year 15+0, fludied in Italy,lived at Antwerp, excelled in hiflory j died in the year l6o4>aged fixty-four, Zhnoyi VOUET, born in the year 1582, learned of his father.He lived at Venice, Rome, and Paris; excelled in hiftory andportraits; died in the year 1641, aged fifty-nine years. T> r» / were four marks ufed by John Sebald Beham, JS. or r. or > , t t i t.- T S P \ ^^^^ ^ ^ ° ^^^^ ^^ P^ ^^ °^^ 2r^ URANIA, is reprefented, in painting, cloathed in a mantleof azure, filled with lamps. V^ S. 1622, ftands for Valentine Sezenlus; the fame mark wasalfo ufed by Virgilio Sole. V. S. I. figaifies \entura Salembinl of Sienna, painter andi.nyentor. A\T yfntlwiy Van VUATERL, i. e. Anthony Van J_^f V Vuaterlj inventor, is found in certain landfcapes I and tc in Ja^. J yj. /^o^/.^. /^/,y^v XX 111
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/Vr^j W A L 371 and folitudcs; It Is fometlmes joined with the firfl of the threemarks that follow the next, i. e. H. S. P. made in one. VULCAN, is reprcfentcd, in painting, &c. (landing by afmiths forge, and hammering on an anvil on mount -^tna,making thunderbolts for Jupiter, and arrows for the god of love. The opinions which the ancients had of Vulcan, were va-rious; and accordingly he is varioufly reprefcnted, fometimes inone manner, and fometimes in another. Some reprefent him lame of one leg, and in a fcarlet robe,of a very black and fwarthy complexion, as it were all fmoaky ;of a general ill-fhaped proportion in all his lineaments; and, be-caufe he is the hufband of Venus, fhe is fometimes painted withhim. Antony VUORMACE, a painter of Cologne, livedin the year 1529 ; he engraved the twelve apoftles iaa ftanding poflure, and ufed this mark. W. TO mah fealing WAFERS, Take very fine flour, mixit with glair of eggs, ifing-glafs, and a little yeaft ; min-gle the materials, beat

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