# Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VILLARD DE HONNECOURT]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS Fr 19093\) ## Commentary Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt c. 1235 Manuscript \(MS Fr 19093\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris About 1220-30, builders and architects took the decisive step of making small-scale sketches on parchments. With this method, all the larger and smaller shapes could be copied and reproduced in order to give precise advance details to sculptors and masons. The "lodge-book" of Villard de Honnecourt gives an overview of the various functions and types of architectural drafts. This manuscript which shows people, animals, machines, furnishings, carvings, and many more things apart from churches. This picture from the sketchbook shows drawings of stonework for piers and windows. ## Related artworks - [Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt]() - [Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt]() - [Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt]() - [Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt]() - [Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()