Charles Batteux (6 May 1713 – 14 July 1780) was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics. Charles Batteux. Born, 6 May 1713. Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil, ...

Charles Batteux in a book entitled Les Beaux Arts réduits à un même principe (1746; “The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle”).

He was professor at Paris of the humanities and rhetoric, then of Greek and Roman philosophy, and was made a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and of the ...

Charles Batteux was less of an innovator than an apt synthesizer of prevailing ideas and a late defender of the classical theory of imitation.

Apr 14, 2016 · The bulk of Batteux's monograph is devoted to the twin topics of how the various arts imitate, and why their various modes of imitation give us pleasure.

A course of the belles lettres: or the principles of literature. Translated from the French of the Abbot Batteux, ... By Mr. Miller. In four volumes.

The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (1746) by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the eighteenth century.

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(1713–80). French cleric and writer. His treatise Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un seul principe (1747) was a highly influential text on aesthetics throughout Europe ...

French philosopher and writer on aesthetics, was born near Vouziers (Ardennes), and studied theology at Reims. In 1739 he came to Paris.