Sister arts
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The sister arts theory was an 18th century theory introduced in England by Dryden's translation, in 1695, of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy's treatise De arte graphica (1668.
- "Painting and Poesy are two sisters; which are so like in all things, that they mutually lend to each other both their Name and Office. One is called a dumb Poesy, and the other a speaking Picture" --John Dryden, 1695 translation of C. A. Dufresnoy's De arte graphica, 1667
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