François Blondel : architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution

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François Blondel : architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution

Anthony Gerbino

(The classical tradition in architecture / Caroline van Eck, editor)

Routledge, 2013

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"First issued in paperback 2013" -- t.p. verso

hbk版(c2004)は別書誌<BB0069017X>

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First director of the Academie royale d'architecture, Francois Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the "new science" of the seventeenth century. The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It studies early modern science and technology, Baroque court culture, and the development of the discipline of architecture.

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Introduction 1. Mathematician, Engineer, Courtier 2. The Rebirth of French Classicism I: The Academie 3. The Rebirth of French Classicism II: Paris 4. Architects and Mathematicians 5. Architecture versus Erudition: The Perrault-Blondel Debate Revisited 6. Reading and Collecting Conclusion: Blondel's Nachleben Appendices

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