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Anastasis Childerici I. Francorum regis, siue, Thesaurus sepulchralis Tornaci Neruiorum effossus, & commentario illustratus

Chifflet, Jean-Jacques, 1588-1660 · 1655 · Antuerpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti · 29 pictures

A 1655 antiquarian study by Jean-Jacques Chifflet, printed at the Plantin press in Antwerp, documenting the sepulchral treasure found at Tournai and the tomb of the Frankish king Childeric I for scholars of early history. The pictures are small woodcut and engraved ornaments, including heraldic cartouches with scrolls, winged putti and fruit swags, plus a plate of emblems and shields showing how antiquarian plates arranged evidence. A designer could take the symmetrical heart-shaped cartouches and winged cherubs as Baroque-era ornament models.

Childéric I, King of the Franks, d. 481 · Sepulchral monuments · Merovingians

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