L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures ...
Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée, published in Paris in 1719, is a multi-volume scholarly survey of ancient Greek and Roman archaeology, religion and mythology, written for antiquarians and learned readers. Its plates are engraved line drawings of altars, cippi, reliefs, sacrificial scenes and medallions, drawn with clean outlines and little shading, showing how classical objects and rituals were built up as compositions a designer could borrow for neoclassical ornament.
