1. See, for example, the Encyclopédie entries on painting practice (esp. Blanc, Beau, Couleur, Harmonie); and the ‘technical tendency’ of Diderot’s Salons, described by Seznec in Salons (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957–1967) vol. I, pp. 8–34, 73–9, 151–7; vol. II, pp. 3–17; vol. III, pp. 3–14; vol. IV, pp. 3–12, 121–6, 231–2, 293–4; and by
2. N. MacGregor, ‘Diderot and the Salon of 1769’ (Diss. Courtauld Institute, University of London, 1976).
3. E. Benveniste, ‘Les relations de temps dans le verbe français’, in Problèmes de linguistique générale (Paris: Gallimard, 1966) pp. 237–50.
4. Quintilian, Institutiones, Book XI, ch. III, articles 65–149.
5. On the Six Canons of Hsieh Ho, see A. Waley, An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting (London: Benn, 1923) pp. 72–4;