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L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures ...

Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741 · 1719 · A Paris : Chez Florentin Delaulne [etc.] · 19 pictures

Montfaucon's 1719 French antiquarian compendium, L'antiquité expliquée, was published in Paris by Florentin Delaulne for scholars and collectors of classical antiquity. Its engraved plates show Abraxas gems, carved gems, bronze statuettes and relief panels of gods, arranged as dense cataloguing grids with small captions and ornate page borders.

Archaeology · Classical antiquities · Art, Greco-Roman · Mythology, Classical · Religions

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