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Villard de Honnecourt. Villard de Honnecourt ( Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or "sketchbook" containing about 250 drawings and designs of a wide variety of subjects.
Villard De Honnecourt (born c. 1225, Picardy, Fr.—died c. 1250) was a French architect remembered primarily for the sketchbook compiled while he travelled in search of work as a master mason. The book is made up of sketches and writings concerning architectural practices current during the 13th century.
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Dec 12, 2018 · Historians initially believed Villard de Honnecourt was an architect, but that seems very unlikely now. One theory suggests that he was a carpenter. In any case, Villard created this sketchbook of 33 sheets of parchment – the work originally had several more pages, but they have gone missing – as a guide, either for himself or for others in ...
Villard de Honnecourt, né autour de l'an 1200, est originaire du village de Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, situé près de Cambrai. Comme les compagnons de son temps, il fait son apprentissage en allant de ville en ville et de chantier en chantier. Il deviendra plus tard magister latomus, c'est-à-dire maître d'œuvre, profession qui englobe le ...
Villard de Honnecourt. Until the end of the thirteenth century, and frequently during the following century as well, the architect was known as "mason", and no distinction seems to have been made with regard to specialization and rank. (1) We may assume that his professional training was that of any mason, which began with his apprenticeship as ...
Opening the pages of Villard de Honnecourt’s Portfolio, he conjures up the memorable image of Villard stationed high up among the flying buttresses of the choir recording the Reims Cathedral that he saw, attempting to capture the visual experience of a structure that combined curving arches, taut shafts, and daring perforation.6 In his ...
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Nov 3, 2017 · Villard de Honnecourt’s drawings and accompanying commentary (BnF MS fr 19093) have generated tremendous interest since they first came to scholarly attention in the nineteenth century. Despite a century and a half of scrutiny, however, their purpose remains elusive. Initially thought to be a Gothic architect, Villard himself has fallen in status as modern studies have questioned his ...
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