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Album de Villard de Honnecourt, architecte du XIIIe siècle; manuscrit publié en fac-simile, annoté, précédé de considérations sur la renaissance de l'art français au XIXe siècle et suivi d'un glossaire

Villard, de Honnecourt, active 13th century, Darcel, Alfred, 1818-1893, Lassus, Jean Baptiste Antoine, 1807-1857 · 1858 · Paris: Imprimerie impériale · 45 pictures

A facsimile edition, published in Paris in 1858 by the Imprimerie impériale, of the notebook of Villard de Honnecourt, a thirteenth-century French architect, edited with annotations by Alfred Darcel and Jean-Baptiste Lassus for scholars and architects. The pictures are pen sketches of plans, window tracery, and sculpted forms with brief French captions, offering designers a record of medieval geometric construction.

Architecture, Medieval · Drawing, French · Manuscripts, French

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