Tableaux du temple des muses
Tableaux du temple des muses is a 1663 French book by Michel de Marolles, published by Jean du Puis, with plates of classical myth drawn from Greek and Latin poets for a educated French readership. Its pictures are copper-engraved plates, each captioned with a Greek or Latin quotation and a source citation such as Nonnus, Apollonius or Ovid, showing mythological scenes with carefully staged figures, landscape backgrounds and cloud-borne groups, useful to a designer for compositions of antique narrative.
