Academia Italica. the publick school of drawing, or, The gentlemans accomplishment : being the ingenious, pleasant and antient recreation of the noble, and the honour of arts, wherein you have plain examples and directions to guide you to the knowledge, first, of the noble and useful art of drawing, with a discourse of all the external parts of mans body, whereby it plainly appeareth how one part joyneth to another, by which means the judgement is well informed of every parts plyableness, and therefore the knowledge of the anotomy [sic] is of great concernment to this most admirable art : secondly, the manner of washing or colouring maps and prints, with the names of several colours proper for that purpose, and how they may be mixed, and what colours set off best together : as also how you should shadow things to cause them to shew more natural and beautiful : with instructions what you must do to paist [sic] maps or prints smooth on cloth or paper : and likewise what you must do to them to cause them to bear your colours and varnish : with divers rare secrets for making, ordering, and preserving of colours, the which was never fully and really discovered until now.