Joshua Reynolds' Discourses is a collection of lectures delivered by the renowned English painter, Joshua Reynolds, to the students of the Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790. The book, which was first published in 1887, contains a total of fifteen discourses, each of which deals with a different aspect of art and painting. In his discourses, Reynolds discusses topics such as the principles of composition, the importance of drawing, the use of color,...