Who was Bernard Picart?

A French engraver (1673 to 1733) who settled in Amsterdam. His plates for the Religious Ceremonies of the World are admired for their detail and for treating every religion with the same care.

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Rites of the World

How European engravers pictured the religions of the world: Bernard Picart's Religious Ceremonies of the 1720s, the Hindu gods of Sonnerat's Voyage of 1806, Ferrario's costume atlas, and the rites of Mexico, Japan, China and the Caribbean.

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By faithChristianity 23 Judaism 8 Islam 13 Hinduism 45 Buddhism and East Asian faiths 32 Indigenous Americas 20

By dateBefore 1700 5 1700 to 1799 60 1800 to 1849 53 1850 and after 17

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