Bilder Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741) – View of the Grand Camée de France – Engraving (1719–1724)

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"AGATHE DE LA SAINTE CHAPPELLE." This engraving illustrates the famous Roman sardonyx cameo known as the Grand Camée de France, featuring three registers of figures: the upper level showing the apotheosis of deceased members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the middle showing Emperor Tiberius and Livia surrounded by their family, and the lower depicting captive barbarians. The technical nature is a copper engraving. It was published in the monumental series L’antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures, printed in Paris by Florentin Delaulne. This work is significant for documenting one of the most important surviving examples of Roman imperial glyptic art, which was then housed in the treasury of the Sainte-Chapelle.

Bernard de Montfaucon was a French Benedictine monk and a leading scholar of the Maurist congregation who is widely considered the founder of the modern science of archaeology. Based in Paris, he devoted his life to the study of ancient texts and artifacts, revolutionizing the field through his comparative method and emphasis on visual evidence. His primary contribution was the publication of multi-volume encyclopedias that documented thousands of classical artworks and inscriptions, making them accessible to European scholars for the first time. Montfaucon’s meticulous research set the standard for historical and paleographical studies throughout the eighteenth century.

Artist or Maker: Bernard de Montfaucon.

Dimensions: Approximately 42 cm x 53 cm.

Medium: Engraving.

Date: (1719–1724).

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