Authority Cited: Felibien
Author name and dates: Andre Felibien (1619-1695)
BKG Bio-tweet: French chronicler of the arts; official court historian to Louis XIV of France; SJ translates his definition of bass-relief
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Felibien cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Filibien cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition of this title that SJ used is unknown. No English translations of the title were identified. No copies of the title were noted in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., but there were two copies of the 1690 edition listed in vol. 2 of the Bibliothecae Harleianae, p. 939, items 14555 and 14556.]
Author name and dates: Andre Felibien (1619-1695)
BKG Bio-tweet: French chronicler of the arts; official court historian to Louis XIV of France; SJ translates his definition of bass-relief
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Felibien cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Filibien cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition of this title that SJ used is unknown. No English translations of the title were identified. No copies of the title were noted in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., but there were two copies of the 1690 edition listed in vol. 2 of the Bibliothecae Harleianae, p. 939, items 14555 and 14556.]
- Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture... avec un dictionnaire des terms propres à chacun de ces arts. 1676, J.-B. Coignard (Paris); Third edition: 1699 (see image below); the third edition dictionnaire entry for BAS-RELIEFS (p.353) reads: "de differentes fortes V. p. 219"; p.219 contains the description of bass-relief types that SJ condenses and translates as "Felibien distinguishes three kinds of bass-relief: in the first, the front figures appear almost with the full relief; in the second, they stand out no more than one half; and, in the third, much less, as in coins."
- Felibien (no work cited); bass-relief
