Jacques-François Blondel
Jacques-François Blondel (born January 8, 1705 in Rouen , † January 9, 1774 in Paris ) was a French architect , art theorist , architectural historian and contributor to the Encyclopédie .
Life
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Jacques-François Blondel was the nephew of the architect Jean-François Blondel (1683–1756) and should not be confused with François Blondel (1618–1668). Jacques-François Blondel was married to Manon Balletti , a French actress and former lover of Giacomo Casanova, since 1760 .
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Career
Jacques-François Blondel began his career as a copper engraver for architectural motifs and became one of the most important architecture teachers in France in the 18th century. He was a representative of classicism . In 1755 he was accepted into the Academie d'architectes. His standard work in four volumes, L'Architecture française (1752–56) made him well known and in 1755 he was appointed court architect to King Louis XV. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern urban planning .
From 1740 he gave architecture courses in Paris at the École des Arts , which he founded and which were recognized by the Académie royale d'architecture in 1743 . Among his students were Étienne-Louis Boullée , Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart , Jean-Françoise-Thérèse Chalgrin , Philippe de La Guêpière , Louis Jean Desprez , Charles de Wailly , Jacques Gondoin , Pierre Michel d'Ixnard , Claude-Nicolas Ledoux , Jean- Baptiste Rondelet , Nicolas de Pigage , the Anglo-Swede William Chambers and the Dane Caspar Frederik Harsdorff .
buildings
- Aubette , main guard at Kléberplatz in Strasbourg
- Chateau de Vendeuvre , Normandy
- Hôtel de ville , Place d'Armes , classicist cathedral portal and buildings accompanying the cathedral in Metz (the latter removed by Paul Tornow )
Fonts
- De la distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la décoration en général , Vol. 1 (1737) digitized, UB Heidelberg , Vol. 2 (1738) digitized, UB Heidelberg
- Discours sur la manière d'étudier l'architecture et les arts qui sont relatifs à celui de bâtir , Paris 1747
- Various contributions to architecture, in the Encyclopédie , 1751–1765
- L'Architecture française, ou Recueil de plans, d'élévations, coupes et profils , 4 volumes, Paris Vol. 1 (1752) in Gallica , Vol. 2 (1752) in Gallica , Vol. 3 (1754) in Gallica , Vol 4 (1756) on Gallica
- Cours d'architecture civile Paris 1771–1777, 6 volumes, the last two edited and completed by Pierre Patte .
literature
- Wilfried Hansmann: The garden projects in Jacques-François Blondel's “Cours d'architecture” and Benrath Palace in Düsseldorf . In: Die Gartenkunst 25 (2/2013), pp. 259–292.
- NN: Blondel, Jacques-François . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Volume XI, 1995, p. 587.
Web links
Wikisource: Jacques-François Blondel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie (1989) Volume 7 Issue 7 pp. 130-131
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blondel, Jacques-François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blondel, Jacques François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect and architectural historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1705 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rouen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1774 |
| Place of death | Paris |