Jacques-François Blondel
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Jacques-François Blondel was an 18th-century French architect and teacher. After running his own highly successful school of architecture for many years, he was appointed Professor of Architecture at
Blondel in a c. 1760 illustration
Building on the town square of Metz, work of Jacques-François Blondel.
West portal of the cathedral in Metz, designed by Blondel in 1764, replaced in 1887
Charles de Wailly
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Charles de Wailly was a French architect and urbanist, and furniture designer, one of the principals in the Neoclassical revival of the Antique. His major work was the Théâtre de l'Odéon for the Coméd
Jacques-François Blondel
…Académie in 1743. In the ensuing years a long sequence of architects profited from his discourse: Boullée, Brongniart, Chalgrin, La Guêpière, Desprez, de Wailly, Gondoin, Ledoux, Guimard and Rondelet, and to foreigners who would bring Neoclassicism home with them: the Anglo-Swedish Sir William Chambers, and the…
Charles de Wailly (1789), bust by Augustin Pajou
Project for transforming the Panthéon into a temple to the republic.
The pulpit, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 1788-89
Maison 57 rue La Boétie, Paris, 1776.