- Bernard Picart
Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was a French
engraver , son of Etienne Picart, also an engraver. He was born inParis and died inAmsterdam . He moved to Antwerp in 1696, and then spent a year in Amsterdam before returning to France at the end of 1698. After his wife died in 1708, he moved to Amsterdam in 1711 (later being joined by his father), where he became a Protestant convert and married again. [ [http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0673/T067313.asp Grove Art, accessed 26 May 2007] ]Most of his work was book-illustrations. His most famous work is "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde", appearing from 1723 to 1743.
Jonathan I. Israel [Israel, 2001, p.135.] calls Cérémonies "an immense effort to record the religious rituals and beliefs of the world in all their diversity as objectively and authentically as possible", although he had never left Europe. He relied on accounts by those who had, and had access to a collection of Indian sculpture. [ [http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0673/T067313.asp Grove Art, accessed 26 May 2007] ] The original French edition of "Cérémonies" comprises ten volumes of text and engravings.Israel notes also that Picart left Paris with
Prosper Marchand , [Israel, 2001, pp.575-6] and collaborated on the "Cérémonies" withJean-Frédéric Bernard , with a commitment toreligious toleration . Picart, Marchand andCharles Levier belonged to a "radical Huguenot coterie". [Israel, 2001, p.696.]"Cérémonies" engravings
* Vol. 1: Asie, Afrique and Amérique (Asia, Africa and America)- 30 engravings
* Vol. 2 - 33 engravings
* Vol. 3 - 19 engravings
* Vol. 4 - 14 engravings
* Vol. 5 - 26 engravings
* Vol. 6 - 45 engravings
* Vol. 7 - 58 engravings
* Vol. 8 - 5 engravings
* Vol. 9 - 24 engravings
* Vol. 10- 12 engravingsNotes
References
*Wyss-Giacosa, Paola von (2006). "Religionsbilder der frühen Aufklärung : Bernard Picarts Tafeln für die Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde". Wabern (Switzerland): Benteli, 2006. OCLC|65207871
*Israel, Jonathan I. (2001). "Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750". Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC|44425436
*Jacob, Margaret, "Bernard Picart and the Turn to Modernity", De Achttiende eeuw, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 1-16.
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