Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (ʒɑ̃ batist ʁɔ̃dlɛ; 4 June 1743 – 25 September 1829) was an architectural theorist of the late Enlightenment era and chief architect of the church of Sainte-Geneviève after the death of Jacques Germain Soufflot of cancer in 1780. Rondelet published a treatise on architecture between 1805 and 1816.
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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
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- Name
- Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
- Born
- 4 June 1743
- Birthplace
- Lyon, France
- Died
- 25 September 1829
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect · essayist · textbook writer · master builder
- Known for
- Panthéon
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French · Latin
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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (ʒɑ̃ batist ʁɔ̃dlɛ; 4 June 1743 – 25 September 1829) was an architectural theorist of the late Enlightenment era and chief architect of the church of Sainte-Geneviève after the death of Jacques Germain Soufflot of cancer in 1780. Rondelet published a treatise on architecture between 1805 and 1816.
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• Name — Jean-Baptiste Rondelet • Born — 4 June 1743 • Birthplace — Lyon, France • Died — 25 September 1829 • Place of death — Paris, France • Significant Buildings — Church of Sainte-Geneviève
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Panthéon - Cintres et chafauds pour la construction du dôme du Panthéon français (ttw18 0079)
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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Panthéon - Cintres pour la restauration des piliers du dôme du Panthéon français, ou nouvelle église Sainte-Geneviève (ttw18 0081)
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- 1.Charvet, .
- 2.Charvet, .
- 3.Charvet, .
- 4.Cette section est tirée de la Wikipédia en italien.
- 5.Ce souci d'économie n'a pas échappé aux contemporains ; voir Amédée François Frézier, Dissertation historique et critique sur les ordres d'architecture, Paris, 1769.
- 6.Nègre 2009b, .
- 7.Traité, , 1814, .
- 8.Catalogue sommaire des musées de la ville de Lyon ; voir le numéro 40.
- 9.Revue du Lyonnais, .
- 10.Revue du Lyonnais, .
- 11.Revue du Lyonnais, .
- 12.Samsa.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- « J.-B. Rondelet, architecte, membre de l'Institut », dans Revue du Lyonnais, , L. Boitel, 1844
- Rondelet Lyon artistique. Architectes : notices biographiques et bibliographiques avec une table des édifices et la liste chronologique des noms], 1899, p.
- Theodore S. Feldman, « Late Enlightenment meteorology », dans Tore Frangsmyr, J. L. Heilbron et Robin E. Rider (dir.), The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1990
- Jean Polak, Bibliographie maritime française depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à 1914, Grenoble, Éditions des , 1976
- Danilo Samsa, Jean-Baptiste Rondelet — La vita e l'opera
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