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	Silhouette-Man.com - Silhouette History
		While the aristocrats were having their silhouettes cut out and eating like kings much of Europe was starving, especially in France.
		Oblivious to his people's plight, Etienne was much more interested in his hobby of cutting out paper profiles, the latest fad.
		Etienne de Silhouette was so despised by the people of France that in protest the peasant s wore only fl mimicking his fl paper cutouts.
	www.silhouette-man.com /History/history.html (270 words)

	Silhouette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior.
		Most silhouettes are formed by tracing the shadow of the subject and cutting along the resultant outline.
		Silhouettes of ships, planes, tanks, and other vessels used by the military are used by soldiers and saliors for recognition purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silhouette (186 words)

	La symbolique de la cathédrale Saint Etienne de Metz (57)
		L’histoire de ce plan dressé par le diable n’est pas à prendre au pied de la lettre, et la morale veut que Perrat ait été un bon chrétien puisqu’il repose dans la cathédrale.
		Cette cathédrale de Metz est dédiée à saint Etienne qui, comme le Christ, a eu le corps transpercé au moment de mourir.
		Fervent disciple de Wagner, et passionné inconditionnel de ses oeuvres, il n’hésitait pas à s’en prendre aux églises chrétiennes et aux cathédrales, les ayant presque toutes bombardé pendant la première guerre mondiale, sous prétexte qu’elles servaient de poste d’observation militaires.
	www.patrimoinedefrance.org /ico030.htm (1093 words)

	Body Silhouette -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today the targets are metal silhouettes of chickens, pigs, turkeys, and rams, with the increasingly large targets being shot at correspondingly larger distances.
		The first type of silhouette edge is sometimes troublesome to handle because it does not neccessairly correspond to a physical edge in the CAD model.
		Silhouette, however, possessed the powerful influence of Madame de Pompadour, and was, through her, elected Controleur-General in March 1757.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/20/body-silhouette.html (1529 words)

	Silhouette-Man.com - Silhouette History
		While the aristocrats were having their silhouettes cut out and eating like kings much of Europe was starving, especially in France.
		Oblivious to his people's plight, Etienne was much more interested in his hobby of cutting out paper profiles, the latest fad.
		Etienne de Silhouette was so despised by the people of France that in protest the peasant s wore only fl mimicking his fl paper cutouts.
	silhouette-man.com /History/history.html (270 words)

	A Short History of Silhouettes by Katherine Courtney : Other Arts on the Art Cafe Network (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A silhouette is a picture of an object or person showing the outline only, filled with solid shadow or to appear in profile.
		European silhouette artists in the seventeenth century would cast the shadow of their subject upon a wall by back lighting them with a candle and then paint their likeness.
		Silhouettes have been on the verge of extinction for the past fifty years with a limited number of specialized artists who are typically found only at craft shows, as unusual entertainment at special events or at Disney parks.
	artcafenetwork.net /meet/kat/silhouette (507 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		silhouette, in allusion to Étienne de Silhouette (1709-67), Fr.
		Usually said to be so called because it was an inexpensive way of making a likeness of someone, a derisive reference to Silhouette's petty economies to finance the Seven Years' War, which were unpopular among the nobility.
		But other theories are that it refers to his brief tenure in office, or the story that he decorated his chateau with such portraits.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=silhouette (70 words)

	ArtLex on Silhouettes
		The term "silhouette" originates from the name of Etienne de Silhouette, a Frenchman who was a finance minister to the Duke of Orleans.
		The first silhouettes were painted images, taken from a subject's shadow, and subsequently reduced in size, often with a pantograph.
		Most later silhouettes have been created by cutting a positive shape from fl paper from direct observation of a model, at a smaller size, then mounting it on a white ground.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/s/silhouette.html (446 words)

	Steve Abbot - Silhouette cutter and artist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name Silhouette was taken from a Frenchman ‘Etienne de Silhouette’ and a lot of stories do not show him in a good light.
		Silhouette went into the big houses and removed a lot of gold and silver for the melting pot.
		Silhouette only stayed in office for eight months but his name lives on.
	www.cutting-image-art.co.uk /history.html (278 words)

	Silhouettes at the American Antiquarian Society
		Silhouettes are charming and evocative portraits cut out of paper that became popular in the mid-eighteenth century in Europe.
		The French finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, either was the first to practice this craft or the practice was named after him for his parsimonious policies.
		Also present is a group of three silhouettes cut by J. Locke of three members of the Stark Family of Manchester, N.H. Silhouettes remained popular throughout the nineteenth century.
	www.americanantiquarian.org /silhouettes.htm (327 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for silhouette (Site not responding. Last check: )
		silhouette SILHOUETTE [silhouette], outline image, especially a profile drawing solidly filled in or a cutout pasted against a lighter background.
		It was named for Étienne de Silhouette (1709-67), who was the finance minister to Louis XV; it is said that he was so noted for his stinginess that cheap
		Better clothing draws a bead on fit: new trimmer silhouette suits the mature man with a buck.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/11880.html (698 words)

	AllRefer.com - silhouette (Art, General) - Encyclopedia
		It was named for Etienne de Silhouette (1709–67), who was the finance minister to Louis XV; it is said that he was so noted for his stinginess that cheap articles, including portraits, were designated A la Silhouette.
		Drawings in silhouette became very popular in Europe during the last decades of the 18th cent.
		Silhouette drawings decreased in popularity after the invention of the daguerreotype.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/silhouet.html (272 words)

	Silhouette Portraits - Mike Dust Fascinatum! - Volume 3 - No. 4
		They were what were known as silhouette portraits, and they were not taken with a camera, but were cut out of thin fl paper, and stuck upon a white card.
		The word silhouette comes from the name of Monsieur Etienne de Silhouette, a French Minister of Finance in 1759, who was thought to be very grasping, and it was given to this kind of portrait because it consists of the mere outline, and is quite mean, or meager, in detail.
		Silhouette portraits must show the face sideways, as a front view would give nothing at all distinctive to indicate the features of the person represented; whereas, when the nose and chin are seen, we have the likeness of a person.
	www.mikedust.com /fascinatum/2003/fasc-0701-silhouettes.html (689 words)

	Tracing Shades (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We generally think of a silhouette as showing only the head and upper body as a bust does, but silhouettes could render an entire person from head to toe.
		A silhouette, normally made life size, could be reduced to a smaller size using the pantograph.
		These miniature silhouettes were extremely popular because they could be used in jewelry such as lockets and cameos.
	www.georgianindex.net /Silhouettes/Shades.html (308 words)

	silhouettes
		Silhouettes gained their name from Etienne de Silhouette who lived from 1709-67 in France and enjoyed a hobby of cutting profiles from fl paper.
		Silhouettes, often known as shades, or shadow-portraits, were most popular between 1770-1860.
		The two silhouettes below are from my husband's family, both very well executed with details in pencil and ink.
	lesleyannemcleod.homestead.com /silhouettes.html (234 words)

	Jane Austen Centre Magazine
		Because anyone could create a silhouette, their making became a popular party activity in the 18th and 19th century.
		The term "silhouette" derived from the name of Etienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), a Frenchman who was a finance minister to Louis XV.
		Etienne de Silhouette, though not the originator of this type of tracing, became synonymous with the art form because of his ability to create elaborate pieces.
	www.janeausten.co.uk /magazine/index.ihtml?pid=391&step=4 (1499 words)

	Silhouettes, silhouette, silhouette artist, silhouette portrait, silhouette art by Karl Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Within minutes and using only a pair of scissors and a skillful eye, he would have produced a wonderful little image with a remarkable resemblance to his subject.
		The invention of the camera signaled the end of the Silhouette as a widespread form of portraiture.
		However, their popularity is being reborn in a new generation of people who appreciate the Silhouette as a nostalgic and unique way of capturing a loved one's image.
	www.cutarts.com /history (176 words)

	Silhouette Sunglass
		Named for French politician Etienne de Silhouette, most silhouettes are formed by tracing the shadow of the subject and cutting out the resultant outline.
		Also refers to Silhouette Shooting, a shooting contest where metal silhouettes are shot in place of live game.Competitions exist for pistols and rifles, anddifferent classes such as rimfire, centerfire, and air pistol/rifle.
		Today the animals are metal silhouettes of chickens, pigs, turkeys, and rams, with each beingshot at increasing distances.
	www.lottery-news.net /dust12701-silhouette_sunglass.html (398 words)

	L'histoire de Saint Germain de Calberte en Lozère.
		Elles forment des chaînes sinueuses et parallèles, aux crêtes déchiquetées de 700 à 1.200 mètres d'altitude, qui délimitent une série d'étroites vallées dans lesquelles coulent les Gardons: Gardon de Saint-André, de Sainte-Croix, de Saint-Martin, de Saint-Germain et de Dèze.
		C'est du haut de l'escalier qu'un seigneur, brutal et vindicatif, aurait précipité dans la rivière une malheureuse châtelaine, accusée injustement d'infidélité.
		Le marquis de Saillans, quelques années après la Révocation, vécut plusieurs mois dans une petite grotte creusée dans les rochers, au dessus du château, de Saint-Pierre.
	causses-cevennes.com /histoire/histoire-StGermain.htm (1362 words)

	Chapter Silenus <i>to</i> Simple of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Silenus was the foster-father of Bacchus the wine-god, and is described as a jovial old toper, with bald head, pug nose, and pimply face.
		Les réformes financleres de ce ministre ayant paru mesquines et ridicules, la caricature s’en empara et l’on donna le nom de Silhouettes à ces dessins imparfaits où l’on se bornait à indiquer par un simple trait le contour des objets.
		Silva (Don Ruy Gomez de), an old Spanish grandee, to whom E lvira was betrothed; but she detested him, and loved Ernani, a bandit-captain.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1129/14995/1.html (481 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - silhouette
		SILHOUETTE [silhouette], outline image, especially a profile drawing solidly filled in or a cutout pasted against a lighter background.
		It was named for Étienne de Silhouette (1709-67), who was the finance minister to Louis XV; it is said that he was so noted for his stinginess that cheap articles, including portraits, were designated à la Silhouette.
		Bibliography: See A. Carrick, A History of American Silhouettes (1968); N. Laliberté and A. Mogelon, Silhouettes, Shadows and Cutouts (1968); S. McKechnie, British Silhouette Artists and Their Work: 1760-1860 (1978).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s1/silhouet.asp (414 words)

	Silhouette - Written on: 03/06/24
		Silhouettes were originally profile portraits, generally in fl.
		The word silhouette crept into the language after the unpopular Etienne de Silhouette, the French Minister of Finance in 1759.
		Common during the 18th and 19th centuries, silhouettes were most frequently freehand cutouts on fl paper pasted on a white board.
	www.painterskeys.com /l_printfriendly.asp?mylet=030624 (395 words)

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	The Art of the Silhouette
		The artists who created silhouettes were known as "profile miniaturists" and the artistic pieces were referred to as profile miniatures or shades.
		Beginning in 1790, silhouettes gave those of nobility and common bloodlines alike the opportunity to obtain the likeness of a family member or special lady or gentleman.
		The first was to produce a silhouette profile by using a lit candle to throw a shadow from which to trace the profile.
	www.romanceeverafter.com /the_art_of_the_silhouette.htm (466 words)

	Seria de Vineri - Saptamanal subiectiv de fotografie
		La vremea respectiva, clasa de mijloc se afla in plina dezvoltare si cerea mijloace accesibile de reprezentare a sinelui.
		Pentru a crea un astfel de portret, o sursa de lumina este plasata in lateral fata de subiect, iar conturul acestuia este trasat pe o hartie aflata de cealalta parte, asa cum este demonstrat si in gravura de mai sus.
		In perioada in care au atins apogeul, astfel de portrete erau in general pictate.
	www.seriadevineri.com /decitit.php?nr=1 (481 words)

	a cut metal silhouette from a selection of objects of vertu
		this is an antique metal silhouette representing a couple on a tandem bicycle with first '900 suits and tennis rackets.
		The silhouette is cut out by hand from a thin sheet of white metal and is of artisanal production.
		The silhouette has piercing and engraving on the figures and a wide reserve not engraved.
	www.silvercollection.it /pagina144.html (260 words)

	Autumn Leaves (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the characteristics of classic paper cutting lies in the balance between negative and positive forms or spaces, fl and white, or even between colored paper which are occasionally used as well.
		In Europe, however, it was only in the mid 18th century that the portrait silhouette came into being, thanks to Monsieur Etienne de Silhouette, the French finance minister of Ludwig XV.
		Etienne de Silhouette came across the Psaligraphie and requested the use of this technique instead of the costly painted miniatures.
	www.crm.mb.ca /crm/sw/fineartofpapercutting.html (427 words)

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	Silhouettes - a Shire Publication on antiques and collectibles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We owe the name 'silhouette' to Etienne de Silhouette (1709-67), the notoriously tight-fisted French minister of finance.
		He did not invent the process of fl paper cutting but simply indulged in the craze of the day.
		A chance purchase led to an interest in portrait miniatures and it was a natural progression from them to silhouettes, in which he has specialised since 1986, selling to collectors and museums in Europe and the USA.
	www.antiquesworld.co.uk /Shire/Silhouettes.html (142 words)

	Silhouette Portraits - Portraits Cut With Scissors Only!
		Silhouette Portraits that will be enjoyed for generations.
		Silhouette portrait cutting is an extremely rare art form today.
		The term Silhouette originates from the name Etienne de Silhouette.
	www.silhouetteportraits.com (111 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Sil’houet’te (3 syl.). (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Sil’houet’te (3 syl.).
		A fl profile, so called from Etienne de Silhouette, Contrôleur des Finances, 1757, who made great savings in the public expenditure of France.
		Some say the fl portraits were called Silhouettes in ridicule; others assert that Silhouette devised this way of taking likenesses to save expense.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/15358.html (88 words)

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