Mémoire concernant le perfectionnement de l'architecture grecque : avec la possibilité mathématiquement démontrée d'un ordre français dit napoléonique, et avec d'autres intéressantes découvertes, soumis à l'excellence le ministre de l'intérieur de l'Empire français et à l'Institut national des sciences et des arts de Paris ; par un amateur étranger, adjudant au Corps impérial du Génie, et membre non résident de l'Académie celtique / G.G.

Main entry:

Vassé, Giorgio Grognet de, 1774-1862, author

Title & Author:

Publication:

A Toulon : de l'Imprimerie d'Alex. Curet, MDCCCVI [1806]

Description:

28 pages ; 19 cm

Notes:
At head of title: Beaux Arts
Signed "G.G" at end

Summary:

In an effort to reform modern architecture of the nineteenth century, which the author perceives as inferior to Greek architecture, Grognet (a Maltese architect) numerates 39 subjects for consideration. The author's proposals read as a manifesto, promoting what he describes as the Napoleonic Order of Architecture, expressing the times of the French-Napoleonic era

Subject:

Architecture, Modern
Architecture, Greek
Architecture, Ancient
Architectural manifestos

Added entries:

Beaux Arts : mémoire concernant le perfectionnement de l'architecture grecque

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Location: Library main 79859
Call No.: ID:86-B15080
Status: Available

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