The rules of the academy, introduced in Turin in 1778, have not subsisted sufficiently long to allow us to judge of their result, as I have done with regard to older establishments. They were given to the public the same year, from the royal press;[78] and do honour as well to the good taste as to the munificence of Victor Amadeus III. His august father had, indeed, already prepared a domicile for the fine arts in the halls of the university, and had founded the new academy of design, under the direction of the first painter of the court. It has since received fresh lustre from the patronage of the present king, and has been enlarged by professorships, stipends, and laws, and aids of all kinds for studious youth. Turin has, in the present day, exhibited productions in painting, such as, except in Rome, are to be found in few capitals of Italy; and in architecture, statuary, and bronze, stands almost unrivalled. I do not particularise the living artists, as they may easily be found in the New City Guide, or in the preface to volume xi. of Vasari, printed in Siena; and some of their names have become better known from the voice of public applause than from the pens of writers. Footnote 78: There is annexed to them a learned Treatise, by the Count Felice Durando di Villa, with very erudite and copious notes. I here close my History of the Art of Painting. The Indexes, which form the sixth volume, the first, containing the nomenclature and the different ages of the artists; the second, a list of the writers from whom I have derived my information; and the third, a reference to some things more particularly deserving of notice, will complete the work. END OF VOL. V. Transcriber's Notes: Standardized spacing after apostrophes in Italian names and phrases. Standardized inconsistent hyphenation. For consistency with prior volumes in this series of books, 'bassi-rilievi' was changed to 'bassi-relievi' and 'master-piece' to 'masterpiece.' Moved footnotes to the end of the paragraph in which the anchor occurs. Retained archaic spelling and punctuation, except as noted below: