Quatremere De Quincy's Historical Dictionary of Architecture: The True, the Fictive and the Real - Hardcover

Younes, Samir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1901092178 ISBN 13: 9781901092172

Publisher: Papadakis Dist A/C, 2006

Synopsis

Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was one of the most influential French art and architectural theorists. His career included programmes to reform the Académie, the transformation of the church of Sainte-Geneviève into the French Pantheon, his magisterial contribution to the Encyclopédie Méthodique of C.J. Panckoucke (1788-1825), his archaeological restitutions of various ancient monuments, and his unprecedented hegemony over the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. This book provides the first English translation of the theoretical essays from his seminal work, Le Dictionnaire Historique d'Architecture of 1832. The importance of this Dictionnaire stems from Quatremère's profound reflections on the nature and ends of architecture; on the principles which are at the source of her rules, and on the roles of imitation and invention within tradition.

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About the Author

Samir Younés is past Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, where he is now Director of Rome Studies. His essays have appeared in Archi e Colonne, Architectural Design, American Arts Quarterly, and New Architecture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Papadakis Dist A/C
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1901092178
• ISBN 13: 9781901092172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256