Encyclopedie_frontispice_section_256px.jpg
Object
Encyclopedie frontispice | |
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Artist |
Charles-Nicolas Cochin
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Title |
Encyclopedie frontispice
title QS:P1476,en:"Encyclopedie frontispice"
label QS:Len,"Encyclopedie frontispice"
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Description |
Extract from the frontispiece of the
Encyclopédie
(1772). It was drawn by
Charles-Nicolas Cochin
and engraved by
Bonaventure-Louis Prévost
. The work is laden with symbolism: The figure in the centre represents truth—surrounded by bright light (the central symbol of the Enlightenment). Two other figures on the right, reason and philosophy, are tearing the veil from truth.
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Photograph
Description Encyclopedie frontispice section 256px.jpg | ||||||
Source | http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/papers/14/version/original | |||||
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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