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Antiquités nationales, ou, Recueil de monumens : pour servir à l'histoire générale et particulière de l'empire françois, tels que tombeaux, inscriptions, statues, vitraux, fresques, etc. : tirés des abbayes, monastères, châteaux, et autres lieux devenus domaines nationaux

Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759-1818 · 1790 · Paris : Chez M. Drouhin, editeur et proprietaire dudit ouvrage ... · 60 pictures

Aubin Louis Millin's Antiquités nationales (Paris, 1790) is a five-volume antiquarian survey recording tombs, inscriptions, statues, stained glass and frescoes from French abbeys, monasteries and châteaux seized as national property during the Revolution. Engraved plates combine outline elevations of Gothic portals and wall tombs with effigies, heraldic shields, relief friezes and numbered detail studies of ornament, useful as period-accurate architectural and heraldic line art.

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