Directoire (style)
Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David , 1798–99, clothes and chair in the Directoire style.
The Directoire ( French ; German "Directory") is a style that can be assigned to Classicism , the heyday of which falls during the reign of the Directory in France (1795–1799). It lies between the early classicist Louis-Seize and the Napoleonic Empire .
The protagonists of the Directoire style were the architects Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853), who later became leading representatives of the Empire style.
See also
literature
- Paul Lacroix, Oskar Marschall von Bieberstein: Directorium, Consulate and Empire. 1795-1815, named after the most famous painters, sculptors, engravers and architects . Schmidt & Gunther publishing house, Leipzig 1899.
Web links
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