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Nouveaux desseins de Grilles d'Eglise à hauteur d'appuy

Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775 · 18th century

Nouveaux desseins de Grilles d'Eglise à hauteur d'appuy
Four architectural designs for church railings and screens at waist height, rendered in precise line engraving. Each panel demonstrates ornamental ironwork patterns featuring symmetrical scrollwork, floral medallions, and classical urns arranged within vertical rectangular frames. The designs employ neoclassical vocabulary—acanthus scrolls, palmettes, and geometric divisions—arranged to balance visual weight across the composition. Such pattern books served architects and craftsmen as reference material for ecclesiastical metalwork commissions, establishing standardized decorative vocabularies for religious interiors during the period of architectural renewal across European churches.

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