Risposta alle Reflessioni critiche sopra le differenti scuole di pittura del sig. Marchese d’Argens

Lucca: il Busdrago, 1755. Rare first edition of this spirited defense of the superiority of Italian painting by the archaeologist and antiquary Venuti, attacking the highly controversial Réflexions critiques sur les différentes écoles de Peinture (1751), of the Marquis d’Argens, which attempted to argue for the superiority of French over Italian and Flemish/Dutch art. Of interest for the history of taste in mid-eighteenth century Rome (Inventory #: 2877)