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Les images ov tableavs de platte peintvre de Philostrate lemnien sophiste grec

Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century, Philostratus, the Lemnian, 3rd cent, Vigenère, Blaise de, 1523-1596 · 1597 · A Paris : Pour Abel Langelier ... · 93 pictures

Les images ov tableavs de platte peintvre is a 1597 Paris edition of Philostratus's descriptions of painted pictures, translated into French by Blaise de Vigenère and published by Abel Langelier for a learned French readership. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials, a large L and C with interlace, acanthus leaves, and foliage filling the letter bodies and borders, which a designer could take as models for ornamental capitals and frame borders.

Mythology, Classical, in literature · Mythology, Classical, in art

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