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The architecture of the French Enlightenment

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Description

288 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

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Genre/Form

History.

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Bibliography (note)

Contents

PART 1: JACQUES-GERMAIN SOUFFLOT (1713-1780) AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: 1. The early years of Soufflot: training and background, design for St. Genevieve. -- 2. Official taste of the mid-century: Blondel and Gabriel, Marigny and Soufflot. -- 3. Theory and practice in church architecture: Laugier and Contant d'Ivry . -- 4 The face of the land: archaeology, engineering and early 'English' gardens. -- 5. The later career of Soufflot, the completion of Ste. Genevieve.
PART 2: BUILDINGS OF THE 1760s AND THEIR ARCHITECTS: 6. The Roman background: Peyre, de Wailly and Moreau-Desproux -- 7. Three Paris architects: Le Camus de Mezieres, Boullee and Antoine. -- 8. Early 'bascillican' churches and their architects: Potain, Trouard and Chalgrin . -- 9. Gondoin and the Ecole de Chirurgie, Victor Louis and the theatre of Bordeaux.
PART 3: CLAUDE-NICOLAS LEDOUX (1735-1806) : -- 10. Introduction training and early works. -- 11. The 1770s: the patronage of Mmle Guimard and Mme du Barry; the saltworks of Arc and Senans, the theatre of Besancon. the Hotel de Thelusson. -- 12. The later works: the 'barriers' of Paris; projects for Aix, the ideal town of Chaux.
PART 4: ARCHITECTURE BEFORE AND AFTER THE REVOLUTION: 13. Two Paris architects: Brongniart and Belanger. -- 14. Paris, the country and the court. -- 15. Architectural theory and practice after the Revolution.

ISBN

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79003606

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Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library