Old Master Drawing Manuals

Below is a list of instructional books, published in the 17th and 18th centuries. I used some scripting and AI to translate the text and describe the images. They offer a fascinating window to the ideas and methods for teaching and learning to draw and create art from hundreds of years ago.

Click on a title, below, to go to the first page which will have links to subsequent pages of each book. Or click a link to the book's index to see a listing of all its pages.