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Bernard de Montfaucon
Bernard de Montfaucon (January 13, 1655, Aube, France - December 21, 1741) was a French Benedictine monk and scholar.
He published L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures between 1719 and 1724. It contained copperplate folio engravings of classical antiquities. It included a depicition of the "Barberini Vase", more commonly known as the "Portland Vase". This book is published in English under the title Antiquities.
In a letter written by Josiah Wedgwood on June 24, 1786, he explains that he had seen Montfaucon's engravings of the Portland Vase.
Partial bibliography
- Diarium italicum (1702)
- Collectio nova patrum et scriptorum graecorum (2 vols., 1706)
- Antiquitas explanatione et schematibus illustrata (L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures), 10 volumes
- Les monuments de la monarchie française (for Henrik IV, 1729-1733)
- Palaeographia graeca (1708)
- Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova (1739)
External links
- Biography from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- www.bautz.de/bbkl Biography (German)
- arachne.uni-koeln.de/ Montfaucon's "Antiquite", complete & commented, as high-resolution scans
- "Bernard de Montfaucon". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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