| Title: | Targe |
| Original Title: | Targe |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 15 (1765), p. 911 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
| Subject terms: |
Gardening
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Targe." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.433>. Trans. of "Targe," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 15. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Targe." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.433 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Targe," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 15:911 (Paris, 1765). |
‘Targe’, a motif in the shape of a crescent with rounded tips, which is made from lines of box and forms part of the broderie of a parterre compartment. It is modelled on the targes or antique shields of the Amazons, which were plainer than those used by the Greeks in naval combat. It is what Virgil calls ‘pelta lanata’. [1]
Notes
1. ‘A light, crescent-shaped shield’ ( Aeneid, book I, line 490).