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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...design and execution. I reproduce the plate of Besancon (facing p. 43) to show how attractive this kind of illustration can become in really competent hands. Daniel Marot was gaining a foremost place among French draughtsmen when his career was abruptly checked by the iniquitous Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which cost France some of the ablest of her sons--soldiers, merchants, Vol XX.. Cabinet du Roi. artists, and craftsmen of all sorts. Marot, as a Protestant, had to fly the country, and took refuge in Holland, where he entered the service of Louis' most inveterate enemy, William of Orange, our William III., and at the Dutch Court spent the rest of his life in multifarious designs of decorations, gardens, and, more rarely, architecture. The great majority of his published engravings were made in Holland. He usually described himself as "Architect to the King of Great Britain." The only work in England said to have been designed by Marot was one of the parterres at Hampton Court. Among many other designs that he made in Holland is one of the magnificent state carriage built at The Hague in 1698, in point of execution an inimitable piece of engraving. Marot made it his business to supply "pensees," as he called them, for architects, painters, sculptors, jewellers, gardeners, and others. In other words, his books were pattern books, naked and unashamed. If, as appears to be the case, there is no escaping these parasites of modern architecture, one could only wish they were up to the standard of Marot and Lepautre. Such was the brilliancy of Marot's drawing that, as in the case of his master, many of his engravings are works of art in themselves, of great beauty, and some of his ceilings are finer than almost...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781152772038
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1152772031
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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