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Coignet may refer to: * Edmond Coignet (1856–1915), a French engineer and entrepreneur * François Coignet (1814–1888), a French industrialist * Gillis Coignet (c.1542–1599), a Dutch and Flemish painter * Gillis II Coignet (1586–after 1641), a Flemish painter * Horace Coignet (1735–1821), a French composer * Jean Francisque Coignet (1835–1902), a French mining engineer and government advisor in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan * Jean-Roch Coignet (1776–1865), a French soldier * Jules Coignet (1798–1860), a French landscape painter * Matthieu Coignet (c. 1514–1586), a French lawyer, ambassador, landowner, and author * Michiel Coignet (1549–1623), a Flemish engineer, cosmographer, mathematician and manufacturer of scientific instruments * Michiel II Coignet Michiel II Coignet (1618 – c.1663) was a Flemish painter specialized in small paintings for cabinets. Michiel II was born and died in Antwerp. He was the son of Michiel Coignet (1549–1623), the court mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Coignet
Edmond Coignet (4 July 1856 – 1915) was a French engineer and entrepreneur. He has been instrumental in the theory of reinforced concrete. Life and Achievements Coignet was the son of industrialist François Coignet (1814-1888) and educated at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (École Centrale Paris). He was the inventor of the agglomerated concrete to strengthen the cement with metal inserts. He permanently reoriented the family business to construction. In 1892 he applied his innovative construction methods on the aqueduct of Achères in Paris. Coignet was the first to use reinforced concrete piles and built with the architect Jacques Hermant __NOTOC__ Jacques-René Hermant (7 May 1855 in Paris, France – 5 June 1930 in France) was a French architect, one of the most renowned architects of fin-de-siècle Paris. Born in Paris, the son of the architect Achille Hermant (1823-1903) ... some of the first Parisian buildings in this material. References * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Coignet
François Coignet (10 February 1814 – 30 October 1888) was a French industrialist and a pioneer in the development of reinforced concrete as the first person to use iron-reinforced concrete to construct buildings.Day, p. 284 Biography Coignet, along with his brothers Louis (b. 1819) and Stephane (b. 1820), took over the family business, a chemical plant in Lyon, in 1846. In 1847, he built some concrete houses using poured cement that was not reinforced with iron. In 1850, Coignet married Clarisse Gauthier (1823-1918) and a year later, he settled in Saint-Denis, a commune near Paris, where in 1852 he opened a second plant and obtained a patent for cement clinker. Coignet then built a cement factory at Saint-Denis using exposed lime walls and followed the pisé de terre system, a rammed-earth method of construction. This was the first time he worked with this method in concrete. Later, he took out a patent in England entitled "''Emploi de Béton''", which gave details o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillis Coignet
Gillis Coignet, Congnet or Quiniet (c. 1542 – 1599) was a Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Flemish Renaissance painter, who was strongly influenced by the Italian style. He painted historical and mythological subjects of an easel size, but was more successful in landscapes, in candlelight subjects, and moonlight.Gillis Coignet (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History He was a Lutheran, which probably influenced his moves from Antwerp to Amsterdam and then Hamburg. He spent most of the 1560s in Italy.Barbara Uppenkamp, ''Gilles Coignet. A migrant painter from Antwerp and his Hamburg career'' in:� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillis II Coignet
Gillis II Coignet (September 1586 in Antwerp – after 1641 in Antwerp) was a Flemish history and landscape painter. Gillis II was the son of Jacob Coignet (III) and Hester van Beringen. He married Magdalena van der Beken on 29 September 1609. He had at least nine children: Jacob, Joanna, Anna, Egidius, Hester, Barbara, Michiel, Maria, Gulielmus. He joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1607 as a master's son.P. Rombouts & T. van Lerius (1874) II, p.442 He was active until at least 1641/42. Gillis' style resembles that of Gillis van Coninxloo and the Frankenthal school. Gillis' son Jacob was also a painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai .... Works Sources * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Coignet, Gillis 02 1586 births 1641 deaths Flemish Baroque painter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Coignet
Horace Coignet (13 May 1736 – 29 August 1821) was a French amateur violinist, singer and composer. He was active in Lyons as a pattern-designer and dealer in embroidered goods, as an official clerk and as musical director of the city from 1794. He became the music instructor to the Duchesse d'Aumont in Paris (at the same time serving as corresponding member of the Lyons Academy), and later returned to Lyons where he served on the directorial board of the conservatory. He was known as a gifted violinist, and composed harpsichord pieces, romances, a set of ''Trois duos concertants de violon et fugues,'' a revolutionary hymn for the Rousseau celebration at Lyons (14 October 1794) and some theatrical music (including an ''opera comique, Le medicin de l'amour'', and an overture to La Harpe's ''Melanie''.) His most notable work the music for Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His politica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Francisque Coignet
Jean Francisque Coignet (1835 – 18 June 1902) was a French mining engineer and government advisor in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan noted for his modernization of the Ikuno Silver Mine at Ikuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Kobe. Biography Coignet was a graduate of the technical school of Saint-Étienne. During the California Gold Rush he travelled to the United States. In 1867, he was hired by the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Domain The , briefly known as the , was a domain (''han'') of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871. The Satsuma Domain was based at Kagoshima Castle in Satsuma Province, the core of the modern city of Kagoshima, ... to develop the mines and mineral resources of that domain. In 1868, his services were transferred to the control of the Tokugawa shogunate, who requested that he re-develop the Ikuno Silver Mine through the introduction of western tunneling techniques and blasting technology. With the Meiji Rest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Roch Coignet
Jean-Roch Coignet (16 August 1776 – 10 December 1865) was a French soldier who served in the military campaigns of the Consulate and First French Empire, up through the Battle of Waterloo. He later wrote his memoirs detailing his military service, ''The Notebooks of Captain Coignet'', which are still being reprinted. He participated in 16 campaigns and 48 battles, never having been wounded. Military service The Revolutionary Wars Coignet was conscripted in 1799 and served as a grenadier in the 96th Line. He received a musket of honour for single-handedly capturing an Austrian cannon at the Battle of Montebello. Coignet fought hard at the battle of Marengo, constantly in the thick of the action, in which he and his fellow soldiers had to hold out until French reserves arrived. Coignet survived the battle, and was promoted to the guard and awarded the Légion d'honneur. The Napoleonic Wars As a grenadier of the guard Coignet fought at Ulm, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau and F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Coignet
Jules Louis Philippe Coignet was born in Paris in 1798 and died there in 1860. He was a noted landscape art, landscape painter who had studied under Jean-Victor Bertin. He travelled a good deal in his own country as well as elsewhere in Europe and the East, and produced a considerable number of views. A regular exhibitor at the Paris Salon exhibitions, he was awarded a gold medal there in 1824 and was given state recognition by being made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1836. Paintings As a painter, Coignet holds a middle place between the Idealists and the Realist visual arts, Realists, and his work is remarkable for the combination of vigour and delicacy in the effects of light and shade, for poetical feeling, for a firm brush, and occasionally for grandeur of conception. This is particularly evident in "The Ruins of the Temple of Paestum", now in Munich's Neue Pinakothek. There are times too when his paintings have an atmospheric, almost Impressionist effect. One exampl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthieu Coignet
Matthieu Coignet (c. 1514–1586) was a French lawyer, ambassador, landowner, and author. Thanks to an early English translation, some English-language sources give his name as Martyn Cognet. Life By 1549 Coignet was an advocate in the ''Parlement'' of Paris, a high appellate court. He was also Master of Requests to the French Queen, Catherine de' Medici, and in 1559 was appointed as procurator general of the ''Parlement'' of Savoy. On 22 February 1580 he was noted as a member of the '' Conseil du Roi'', a sometime ambassador to Schwyz and the Grisons, Master of Requests, and lord (''seigneur'') of La Tuillerie-les-Dampmartin and of part of Bregi-en-Mulcian. Louis Moréri, ''Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou le melange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane'' (Vol. 6 of 19th edition, Paris, 1744)p. 774/ref> He died in 1586, aged 72. Publications La Croix du Maine LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiel Coignet
Michiel Coignet (also Quignet, Cognet or Connette in Italian) (1549 in Antwerp – 24 December 1623 in Antwerp) was a Flemish polymath who made significant contributions to various disciplines including cosmography, mathematics, navigation and cartography. He also built new and improved scientific instruments and made military engineering designs. Coignet was a scientist at the court of the governors of the Spanish Netherlands Albert VII, Archduke of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia where he held a position similar to that of his compatriot Simon Stevin at the rival court of Maurice, Prince of Orange. Life Michiel Coignet’s father Gillis (also known as Egidius) was a goldsmith and maker of astronomical and mathematical instruments in Antwerp and was married to Brigitte Anthonis Hendriks. Michiel’s brother Jacob III became a physician while his brother Gillis I became a painter. Michiel’s father died in 1562-1563. The details on Michiel’s education are scarce. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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