La Géométrie was published in 1637 as an appendix to Discours de la méthode (Discourse on the Method), written by René Descartes. In the ...
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Continue Reading →Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac (24 June 1777, Paris – 20 January 1847, Paris) was a French artist, scholar and archaeologist. ...
Continue Reading →Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (21 October 1755 – 28 December 1849) was a French armchair archaeologist and architectural theorist, a Freemason, and an ...
Continue Reading →Jean-Joseph Rive (19 May 1730 – 20 October 1791) was an 18th-century French bibliographer, librarian and revolutionary leader. The son of a goldsmith, ...
Continue Reading →Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de LĂ©vis, comte de Caylus, marquis d’Esternay, baron de Bransac (Anne Claude Philippe; October 31, 1692 – ...
Continue Reading →Jean Barbault (1718–1762) was a French painter, etcher and printmaker, who worked in Rome for most of his life. He is noted for ...
Continue Reading →Collection de peintures antiques qui ornoient les palais, thermes, mausolées, chambres sepulcrales, des empereurs Tite, Trajan, Adrien, et Constantin, et autres edifices tant ...
Continue Reading →Giovanni Battista Piranesi (also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings ...
Continue Reading →Jean Barbault (1718–1762) was a French painter, etcher and printmaker, who worked in Rome for most of his life. He is noted for ...
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