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 ...
Continue Reading →Faut-il considérer la publication de VArt Poétique de Boileau, au sein d’un recueil d’Œuvres diverses, en juillet 1674, comme un « grand événement ...
Continue Reading →Après les Gabriel, Soufflot, Charles De Wailly, Ledoux, Lecamus de Mézières, l’un des grands architectes français du xvmc siècle est présenté à son ...
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