Villard de Honnecourt Home Page

The Portfolio
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Villard de Honnecourt


	"Barnes maintains the canonical pages on Villard de Honnecourt" —AVISTA
	"Barnes is the undisputed authority on this enigmatic figure" —WIKIPEDIA
	"Le site internet de Barnes . . . est un instrument de travail indispensable"—Jean Wirth, Université de Genève "Barnes has become synonymous with Villard Studies"—Nancy Wu, The Cloisters "Carl Barnes is the Doyen of Villard Studies in the English-speaking world, perhaps the world over"—Paul Crossley, Courtauld Institute of Art

Site Created and Maintained by: Dr. Carl F. Barnes, Jr., 1396 Otter Drive, Rochester Hills, MI 48306-4332 U.S.A., cfbarnes@comcast.net

Site Last Revised 10 November 2011

This site brings together a variety of information concerning the portfolio of thirty-three leaves of drawings and recipes (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093) of the 13th-century Picard artist Villard de Honnecourt, including several of my articles on the portfolio and an in-progress revision of my 1982 critical bibliography, Villard de Honnecourt, the Artist and His Drawings (Boston: G. K. Hall).

This is a large undertaking and must be broken into subheadings to be useful.

A short biography of Carl F. Barnes, Jr.
A list of my publications and presentations on Villard de Honnecourt.
My biography of Villard in the Dictionary of Art.
An English translation of "Le 'Problème' de Villard de Honnecourt."
An (in progress) revision of my 1982 Villard bibliography.
A checklist of subjects in the portfolio, by folio.
An essay on the proper designation of the Villard assemblage.

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