Pierre-Jean Mariette (7 May 1694 – 10 September 1774) was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially ...
Continue Reading →Francesco Scipione Maffei was an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose ...
Continue Reading →Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. (French: [də mɔ̃fokɔ̃]; 13 January 1655 – 21 December 1741) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation ...
Continue Reading →Gérard Audran (or Girard Audran) (2 August 1640 – 26 July 1703), was a French engraver of the Audran family, the third son ...
Continue Reading →Félibien was born at Chartres. At the age of fourteen he went to Paris to continue his studies; and in May 1647 he ...
Continue Reading →Victor Hugo began writing Notre-Dame de Paris in 1829, largely to make his contemporaries more aware of the value of the Gothic architecture, ...
Continue Reading →Le Théâtre, c’est un livre de bâtisseur qui ” a fini de construire “, en plein coeur du nouveau Paris haussmannien, la cathédrale ...
Continue Reading →An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Claude Perrault ARTICLE I. Of ...
Continue Reading →First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval ...
Continue Reading →Après avoir consacré sa vie à la médecine, à la science et à l’architecture, Claude Perrault s’éteignait le 9 octobre 1688. Figure éminente ...
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