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          Barnes, Jr., Carl F. The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr )....

          Villard de Honnecourt

          13th-century artist from Picardy, France

          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 drawings and designs of a wide variety of subjects.

          Abstract.

        1. Villard de Honnecourt was an enigmatic medieval polymath considered by many to be a forerunner of the great Leonardo da Vinci.
        2. Barnes, Jr., Carl F. The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr ).
        3. Any questions about the thirteenth-century French artist and architect Villard de Honnecourt and his work must be answered by the one.
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          5. Life

          Nothing is known of Villard apart from what can be gleaned from his surviving "sketchbook."[1] Based on the large number of architectural designs in the portfolio, it was traditionally thought that Villard was a successful, professional, itinerant architect and engineer.[2] This view is sometimes contested today, as there is no evidence of him ever working as an architect and the drawings contain some inaccuracies.

          However, Honnecourt compiled a manual that gave precise instructions for executing specific objects with explanatory drawings. In his writings he fused principles passed on from ancient geometry, medieval s