François L’Anglois
François L’Anglois (12 May 1589 Chartres – 14 January 1647 Paris) [1] was a French painter, engraver, printer, bookseller, publisher and art dealer, best known for his 1620 book "Livre de Fleurs", a compendium of garden flowers, birds and insects.[2]
L’Anglois ran a workshop in Paris from where he turned out and sold engraved prints. He designed the title page for "Livre de Fleurs" and had the botanical plates engraved by the German, Léonard Gaultier (1561–1641), also resident in Paris, Claude Savary, and Barthélémy Gaultier, the editor being Jean Le Clerc. The remaining plates were drawn and engraved by L’Anglois.[3]
L’Anglois also published Pierre de Sainte-Marie Magdeleine's "Traitté d'horlogiographie" in 1645, a treatise on timekeeping, methods for determining the time both by day and by night, the timing of tides, how to cut geometrically regular shapes from stone or wood, and all aspects of measurement and projection.[4] Nicolas l'Anglois, a brother or son of François, published another edition of the book in 1657 in Paris.[5]
Some selected works published by François L’Anglois
- "Livre des fleurs" (1620)
- "R. P. Ioannis Francisci Niceronis Parisini, ex Ord. Minim. Thaumaturgus opticus, seu Admiranda Optices, per radium directum: Catoptrices, per reflexum e politis corporibus, planis, cylindricis, conicis, polyedris, polygonis & aliis: Dioptrices, per refractum in diaphanis. ... Opus curiosum & utile Pictoribus, Architectis, Statuariis, Sculptoribus, Caelatoribus, & quibuscumque aliis, quorum opera in delineandi studio posita est. Pars prima De iis quae spectant ad visionem directam. Ad emin[entissi]mum cardinalem Mazarinum" by Jean François Nicéron (1646) in Latin and held by 5 libraries worldwide
- "Le Livre Original de la Portraiture pour la Jeunesse tiré de F. Bologne et autres bons peintres. L. Ferdinand fecit"
- "La perspective speculative, et pratique. Ou sont demonstrez les fondemens de cet art, & de tout ce qui en a esté enseigné jusqu'à present. Ensemble la maniere universelle de la pratiquer, non seulement sans plan geometral, & sans tiers poinct, dedans ni dehors le champ du tableau. Mais encores par le moyen de la ligne, communément appellée horizontale. De l'invention du feu sieur Aleaume, ingenieur du roy. Mise au jour par Estienne Migon, professeur és mathematiques" by Jacques Aleaume
- "Maniere de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes par Pierre Le Muet Architecte ordinaire du roy et conducteur des desseins des fortifications de la province de Picardie. Reveue, augmentée et enrichie en cette seconde édition de plusieurs figures & de beaux bastimens & edifices, de l'invention & conduitte dudit sieur Le Muet, & autres" by Pierre Le Muet [6]
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