Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond

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Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond ( Russian Жан Батист Александр Леблон Shan Baptist Alexander Leblon * 1679 in Paris , † March 10 jul. / 21st March  1719 greg. In St. Petersburg ) one was French - Russian architect and landscape architect of the Baroque .

Life

Le Blond, son of the painter and bookseller on the Pont Saint-Michel Jean Le Blond and his wife Jeanne d'Eu, studied architecture with his uncle Jean Girard, who was in the service of Philippe I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans . According to Jacques-François Blondel , Le Blond had acquired his knowledge of garden architecture from André Le Nôtre . After Pierre-Jean Mariette , Le Blond contributed significantly to Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville's La théorie et la pratique du jardinage (1709).

As Architecte du Roi , he made presentation drawings of the cascade and the great fountain of the Saint-Cloud castle in 1699 . He built several Hôtels particuliers in Paris , in particular the Hôtel de Clermont, Rue de Varenne, and the Hôtel de Vendôme (1706–1707) on the Place Vendôme . He planned the palace of the Archbishop of Auch and then began construction. Le Blond provided the drawings for L'Histoire de l ' abbaye de Saint-Denis (1706). In 1710 he published the second edition of the Cours d'architecture de Vignole in a translation by Augustin-Charles d'Aviler with his own drawings.

In 1716, Le Blond accepted Peter I's invitation to St. Petersburg . He was a general architect with an exceptionally high salary. He taught at the Neva , the first -Ufern Nurseries and about 25 workshops especially for sculpture , stucco work and tapestry one. He introduced lighting with oil lanterns for the main streets. In 1717 he created a general plan for St. Petersburg with Vasilyevsky Island as the center, which was not approved. He also developed a standard design for buildings in St. Petersburg (1716). His plans for the ground floor of the summer garden and the Constantine Palace in Strelna were not accepted. His main work was the magnificent Apraxin Palace (1717–1718), which was later demolished to make way for the Winter Palace . In collaboration with Johann Friedrich Braunstein and Nicola Michetti , Le Blond influenced the construction of Peterhof Palace (1717). In particular, he dealt with the planning and construction of the Grand Palace and with the equipment of the Palace Mon Plaisir in Peterhof.

Le Blond died of smallpox . He was buried in the Samson Cemetery in the presence of Peter I in St. Petersburg. The grave has not been preserved.

In the 1720s , Domenico Trezzini built the inn of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery on Vasilyevsky Island, 7th line no.12, and house no.41 on Nabereschnaja Leitenanta Schmidta (now Nicholas-Roerich - Museum and institute).

Works

  • Hotel de Clermont, Paris

  • Hotel de Vendôme, Paris

  • Former Archbishop's Palace in Auch, now Préfecture du Gers

  • General plan for St. Petersburg

  • Standard draft for buildings in St. Petersburg

  • Apraxin Palace

  • Grand Palace in Peterhof

  • Inn of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg

  • House number 41 on Nabereschnaja Leitenanta Schmidta

Web links

Commons : Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Medvedkova: Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond, architecte 1679-1719 - De Paris in Saint-Pétersbourg . Alain Baudry & Cie, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-9528617-0-0 .
  2. ↑ Olga Medvedkova: Au-dessus de Saint-Pétersbourg, dialogue au royaume des morts entre le tsar Pierre le Grand et son architecte Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond . TriArtis Editions, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-916724-43-0 .
  3. ↑ Alexandre le Blond: The gardening both in its theory or consideration as practice or exercise . Dr. Richter, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-923090-35-8 .
  4. ^ A b Runar Strandberg: The French formal garden after Le Nostre . In: The French Formal Garden . 1974, p. 60-65 .
  5. ↑ Renzo Dubbini: Geography of the Gaze: Urban and Rural Vision in Early Modern Europe . University of Chicago, 2002, ISBN 0-226-16737-2 , pp. 65 .
personal data
SURNAME Le Blond, Jean-Baptiste Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Леблон, Жан-Батист (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Russian architect of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1719
Place of death St. Petersburg