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Sculpture:
Various Procedures
for Working on Marble
and Tools, 1751-1772
The Household Accounts(L’Œconome), 1754
The
Palazzo Barberini,
from the Vedute di Roma, 1749
from the Vedute of Rome, 1761
View
and Plan of the Vauxhall at
the Foire Saint-Germain, 1772
Sculpture:
Workshop for Plaster Casting,
Tools and Methods, 1751-1772
ROBERT
BÉNARD, French, born 1734;
after BOURGEOIS, French, 18th century
Working on Marble and Tools
from the Encyclopédie,
ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences,
des arts et des métiers,
par une Société de Gens de lettres, Paris, 1751-1772
The
Encyclopédie is a notable and exemplary product of the French Enlightenment.
Published under the direction of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond
d’Alembert, the 17 volumes of text contain nearly 72,000 entries written
by at least 140 contributors, including some of the most prominent thinkers
of the time, François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
and Jean-François Marmontel.
The
Encyclopédie was intended from the first to be an illustrated work but
the twelve volumes of plates did not begin to appear until 1762. Over
3000 plates are grouped according to themes which are organized alphabetically. Each group of plates is preceded by printed
text, a legend identifying plates in te group and the figures marked within
each plate.
This
plate focuses on the art of sculpture in marble, one of the many topics
addressed in this monumental work.
