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Pierre-Jules Delespine
Nicolas Pierre-Jules Delespine (31 October 1756, Paris – 16 September 1825, Paris) was a French architect. Biography He came from a long line of architects, which included his father, Louis-Jules Delespine (1726-1796). After learning all he could at home, he continued his studies with Antoine-François Peyre and . From 1800 until his death, he was a professor at the École des beaux-arts, and served as a member of the École's jury. His workshop enjoyed a high reputation. Several of his students were winners of the Prix de Rome for architecture: Félix Callet (1819), Abel Blouet (1821), (1828), and (1830) He was a member of the Council for Civic Buildings and, in 1824, became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. There, he took Seat #1 for architecture, succeeding Maximilien Joseph Hurtault, deceased. In addition to his official work, he built hotels and inns on the Rue de Rivoli and the . He also worked on restorations at the Church of Saint-Roch and the Hôtel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the ÃŽle-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine-François Peyre
Antoine-François Peyre (5 April 1739, in Paris – 7 February 1823, in Paris) was a French architect; the younger brother of Marie-Joseph Peyre, and the uncle of . Biography He won the Grand prix de l'Académie (later, the Prix de Rome) in 1762, eleven years after his brother, and went to stay at the Académie de France à Rome in 1766. There, he became close friends with a colleague, , and married his sister, Sophie. Upon his return, he was named an architect of the King's Buildings at Fontainebleau and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he created two convent chapels. In 1777, he was sent to Trier, to help Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony complete his Château in Koblenz. That same year, he entered the Académie Royale d'Architecture and later became a teacher there. His students included Charles Percier, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, Antoine Vaudoyer and Louis-Pierre Baltard. In the 1780s, he completed the chapel at the charity hospital in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts
École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plat ... flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoie, a French commune * École-Valentin, a French commune in the Doubs département * Grandes écoles, higher education establishments in France * The École, a French-American bilingual school in New York City * Ecole Software, a Japanese video-games developer/publisher {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix De Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change. History The Prix de Rome was initially created for painters and sculptors in 1663 in France, during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. To succeed, a student had to create a sketch on an assigned topic while isolated in a closed booth with no reference material to draw on. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peintu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Callet
Félix-Emmanuel Callet (23 May 1791 – August 1854) was a French neoclassical architect.The register entry in L'état civil gives a death date of 1 August but other biographical notes such as Lance (''cf.'' bibliography), state 2 August. Early life and family Felix-Emmanuel Callet was born in Paris, the son of Antoine Callet (1755–1850), architect of civil buildings and highways of the city of Paris, known for his biographical works on French architects of the sixteenth century and his rich collection of books and antiques, amassed at his house in the Rue de la Pépinière and completed by his son. Felix was the elder brother of Adolphe Apollodorus Callet (1799–1831), historical painter and cousin of Antoine-François Callet (1799–1850), also an architect (not to be confused with the painter of the same name). Education Felix Callet was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in 1809. A pupil of his father and Pierre-Jules Delespine, he won the ''Grande médaille d'émul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Blouet
Guillaume-Abel Blouet (; 6 October 1795 – 7 May 1853) was a French architect who specialised in prison design. Biography Blouet was born at Passy. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1821 at the École des Beaux-Arts, entitling him to five years of study at the French Academy in Rome. The study of Roman architecture that was expected from students at the French Academy at Rome resulted in his speculative restoration of the original construction of the Baths of Caracalla, ''Restauration des thermes d'Antonin Caracalla, à Rome, présentée en 1826 et dédiée en 1827 à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts'' (1828). The Institut de France appointed Blouet the head of the fine arts section of the French Morea expedition 1828–1833, the second of three great military-scientific expeditions led by France in the first half of the 19th century, in which geologists and antiquarians accompanied an expedition with military objectives, in this case to deport all Ottoman nationals from the Morea, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Académie Des Beaux-Arts
The (; ) is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the . The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect. Background The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671). Awards Currently, the provides several awards including five dedicated prizes: . Prix et Concours. * Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximilien Joseph Hurtault
Maximilien Joseph Hurtault (8 June 1765 in Huningue – 2 May 1824 in Paris) was a French architect. Biography His earliest work was with the Director of fortifications in Huningue. After his arrival in Paris, he became a student of Richard Mique, and was employed by him for work at the Petit Trianon. Under the Directorate, he served as a professor at the École Polytechnique. Later, he became an architectural inspector for the Conseil des Anciens, and the Conseil des Cinq-Cents at the Palais Bourbon. He also participated in the restoration of the Palais des Tuileries; notably, the decorations for the chapel and the theatre, under the direction of Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine. After obtaining a grand prize for architecture, he spent almost two years in Italy. Upon returning, he was appointed an official architect at the Château de Fontainebleau, where he performed several restorations; notably on the pavilion at the pond, and the long hallway known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rue De Rivoli
The Rue de Rivoli (; English: "Rivoli Street") is a street in central Paris, France. It is a commercial street whose shops include leading fashionable brands. It bears the name of Napoleon's early victory against the Austrian army, at the Battle of Rivoli, fought on 14–15 January 1797. Developed by Napoleon through the heart of the city, it includes on one side the north wing of the Louvre Palace and the Tuileries Gardens. History The Rue de Rivoli is an example of a transitional compromise between an environment of prestigious monuments and aristocratic squares, and the results of modern town-planning by municipal authorities. The new street that Napoleon developed through the heart of Paris includes on one side the north wing of the Louvre Palace, (which Napoleon extended) and the Tuileries Gardens. Upon completion, it was the first time that a wide, well designed and aesthetically pleasing street bound the north wing of the Louvre Palace. Napoleon's original section of the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Roch, Paris
The Church of Saint-Roch (, ) is a 17th–18th-century French Baroque and classical style church in Paris, dedicated to Saint Roch. It is located at 284 rue Saint-Honoré, in the 1st arrondissement. The current church was built between 1653 and 1740. The church is particularly noted for its very exuberant 18th century chapels decorated with elaborate Baroque murals, sculpture, and architectural detail. In 1795, during the later states of the French Revolution, the front of the church was the site of the 13 Vendémiaire, when the young artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte fired a battery of cannon to break up a force of Royalist soldiers which threatened the new revolutionary government. History Construction In 1521, the merchant Jean Dinocheau had a chapel built on the outskirts of Paris, which was dedicated to Saint Susanna. In 1577, his nephew Etienne Dinocheau had it extended into a larger church. In the early 18th century, with the beginning of the construction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel De Ville, Rouen
The (, ''City Hall'') is a historic building in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, northern France, standing on Place du Général de Gaulle. The garden façade and roofs were designated a ''monument historique'' by the French government in 1948. History The city council initially held its meetings in the Halle aux Marchands, close to the Église Saint-Éloi, in the mid-12th century. It then met in a building on Rue du Gros-Horloge, previously belonging to Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, which was granted to them by Philip II in 1220. After the second Hôtel de Ville became dilapidated, a third Hôtel de Ville was erected on Rue du Gros-Horloge to a design by Jacques Gabriel in the Renaissance style in 1607. After nearly two centuries of use, the third Hôtel de Ville became inadequate and was sold for commercial use in 1796. In the late 18th century, the city council was briefly accommodated in the Hôtel de la Première Présidence on Rue Saint-Lô, which had been designed by J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area () is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as ''Rouennais''. Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman and Angevin kings of England, Angevin dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries. From the 13th century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade. Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was on its soil that Joan of Arc was tried and burned alive on 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
