Author: VIGNE Félix de :
Title: Vade-Mecum du peintre, ou recueil de costumes du Moyen-âge, pour servir à l'histoire de la Belgique et pays circonvoisins, par Félix de Vigne, peintre, professeur à l'academie Royale, et à l'Athénée, directeur de la Société Royale des Beaux-Arts et de Littérature de Gand... Deuxième édition. Tome Premier (- Tome Second).
Description: .: 16. Gand ( Gent ) , Imprimerie De Busscher, frères à Gand, 1844, 2 volumes bound in one, in-4°, 28,5 x 21,5 cm, (4) nn pp + 29 pp + 84 engraved plates ; (4) nn pp + 49 pp + 121 engraved plates (numbered 1-111, A-I,K), some of the plates are neatly coloured in a contemporary hand. Bound a contemporary half leather binding with a raised gilt spine. Top of spine slightly damaged but apart from that a very nice copy without stains which usually occur in these books. Text in French. Félix de Vigne (1806-1862), painter and writer (in Dutch and French), compiled this well illustrated manual on historical, mainly mediaeval, costume and weaponry to instruct his fellow history painters in the art of history painting. Over 200 plates give examples of dress and costumes taken from contemporary mediaeval illustrations. This book fits in with the neogothical revival of history painting which sought more authenticity in the depiction of historical subjects. .

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