Bernard Picart One of six copper plate engravings depicting Florida Indians (of 30 engravings total), Circa 1721, Volume One of "Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde" (Private Collection of L.S. Morgan, St. Augustine Beach, Florida)

Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was a French engraver, son of Etienne Picart, also an engraver. He was born in Paris and died in Amsterdam. He moved to Antwerp in 1696, and then spent a year in Amsterdam before returning to France at the end of 1698. After his wife died in 1708, he moved to Amsterdam in 1711 (later being joined by his father), where he became a Protestant convert and married again.^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami metropolitan area Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ... 1673 (MDCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... For other uses, see Amsterdam (disambiguation). ...

Most of his work was book-illustrations. His most famous work is Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, appearing from 1723 to 1743. Jonathan I. Israel^[2] calls Cérémonies "an immense effort to record the religious rituals and beliefs of the world in all their diversity as objectively and authentically as possible", although he had never left Europe. He relied on accounts by those who had, and had access to a collection of Indian sculpture.^[3] The original French edition of "Cérémonies" is comprised of ten volumes of text and engravings. Professor Jonathan Irvine Israel (born London, 26 January 1946) is as of 2006 Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S., and a writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry. ...

Israel notes also that Picart left Paris with Prosper Marchand,^[4] and collaborated on the Cérémonies with Jean-Frédéric Bernard, with a commitment to religious toleration. Picart, Marchand and Charles Levier belonged to a "radical Huguenot coterie".^[5] The cross of the war memorial and a menorah for Hanukkah coexist in Oxford. ...

"Cérémonies" engravings

• Vol. 1: Asie, Afrique and Amérique (Asia, Africa and America)- 30 engravings
• Vol. 2 - 33 engravings
• Vol. 3 - 19 engravings
• Vol. 4 - 14 engravings
• Vol. 5 - 26 engravings
• Vol. 6 - 45 engravings
• Vol. 7 - 58 engravings
• Vol. 8 - 5 engravings
• Vol. 9 - 24 engravings
• Vol. 10- 12 engravings

Notes

1. ^ Grove Art, accessed 26 May 2007
2. ^ Israel, 2001, p.135.
3. ^ Grove Art, accessed 26 May 2007
4. ^ Israel, 2001, pp.575-6
5. ^ Israel, 2001, p.696.

References

• Wyss-Giacosa, Paola von (2006). Religionsbilder der frühen Aufklärung : Bernard Picarts Tafeln für die Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Wabern (Switzerland): Benteli, 2006. OCLC 65207871
• Israel, Jonathan I. (2001). Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity, 1650-1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 44425436
• Jacob, Margaret, Bernard Picart and the Turn to Modernity, De Achttiende eeuw, vol. 37, 2005, pp. 1-16.