Franz Brulliot (16 February 1780 – 13 November 1836) was an art historian, specializing in

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. He is known particularly for his work ''Dictionnaire des monogrammes''.

Life and career

Brulliot was born in

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in 1780. His father was Josef Brulliot (1739–1827), a professor at

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. Franz Brulliot studied under the artist

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at the Academy, and he began

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. He moved to

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in 1805, and in 1808 became Assistant to the Royal Collection of engravings, under Schmid; he gave up producing art and devoted himself to the study of engraving. He began cataloging the collection, according to

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's catalogue. To further his studies he travelled to cities in Germany, Italy, France and the Netherlands. From 1822, he was Conservator of the collection."Brulliot, Franz Josef Augustinus"
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'', Volume 2 (1955). His work ''Dictionnaire des monogrammes, marques figurées, lettres initiales, noms abrégés etc. avec lesquels les peintres, dessinateurs, graveurs et sculpteurs ont désigné leurs noms'' was published in 2 volumes in Munich in 1817; there was a supplement to the work, ''Table Générale des Monogrammes'', in 2 volumes (1820). A much revised version of ''Dictionnaire des monogrammes'', in 3 volumes, appeared 1832–1834.''Dictionnaire des monogrammes'', 1834

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. Retrieved 16 December 2018. Brulliot made preparatory work for a 10-volume supplement to Bartsch's ''Le Peintre Graveur'', before he died of

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in Munich in 1836.

References

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