Stately Mansions; Eighteenth Century Paris Architecture
Author : Michel Gallet
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Michel Gallet
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Wend Graf Kalnein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300060130
Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century Wend von Kalnein French architecture of the eighteenth century - which exhibited great technical ability and refined taste - influenced architectural style throughout Europe. This handsome book is a survey of the French architecture of the period. It begins with the origins of the 'style moderne' under the last years of Louis XIV, discusses the end of Rococo and the return to antiquity, and concludes with the Revolutionary architecture and the house of Madame Récamier. Kalnein describes the development of palace and hôtel architecture by the two great architects de Cotte and Boffrand, discussing such large urban projects as the reconstruction of Rennes and the Places Royales. He traces the return to antiquity (which began when the scholars of the Académie d'Architecture were sent to Rome), the revolutionary architecture with its grand, but never executed, projects, and the shift from neoclassicism to early romanticism. Kalnein also examines the decorative arts of the period, which became even more important than architecture in the Rococo period. Focusing on such architects as Boffrand, Gabriel, and Redoux, he shows how a study of their building decoration illuminates the evolution of 'style moderne,' the battle between Rococo and Neoclassicism, and the dissemination of French styles throughout Europe.
Author : Richard A. Etlin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226220857
Richard A. Etlin demonstrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the eighteenth century. Examining a broad range of topics from architecture and urbanism to gardening and funerary monuments, he reconsiders eighteenth-century French architecture with regard to the ways in which it was informed by symbolic space. This book provides an accessible introduction to a century of architecture that transformed the classical forms of the Renaissance and Baroque periods into building types still familiar today.
Author : Michel Gallet
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Meredith Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351576070
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.
Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0191053856
Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.
Author : Claude Frégnac
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN :
Surveys of the architecturally extravagant great houses of Paris built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Author : Alden R. Gordon
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892366941
Between 1750 and his death in 1781, the Marquis de Marigny?brother of Madame de Pompadour, courtier to Louis XV, and one of eighteenth-century France's important patrons of art and architecture?amassed a collection that was broad in scope, progressive in taste, and exceptional in quality and provenance. This book offers a transcription of the exhaustive inventory of Marigny's estate together with an essay in which Alden R. Gordon not only sketches Marigny's life and times but also re-creates the interiors and grounds where the paintings, statues, books, household goods, and other property listed in the inventory were displayed and used. Also included are plans of Marigny's last four residences; lists of heirs, paintings, and auction sales; transcriptions of shipping manifests and sales catalogs; indexes; and a glossary.
Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1469 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136787585
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Norbert Schoenauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393731200
The fascinating evolution of house forms from the Stone Age to the present.