Revue de l'art chrétien
Revue de l'art chrétien is a French periodical on Christian art and archaeology, issued from Lille by the Desclée, De Brouwer publishing house in 1857 for scholars and church-art readers. Its plates are line drawings of architecture: a carved Romanesque-style doorway with a moulded arch, a masonry wall section with stones drawn course by course, a stone façade with rows of arched windows and a low entrance, and a half-timbered house front with a figure at its doorway. A designer might draw on the precise stone-coursing and arch profiles as models for historicist ornament or stonework patterns.
