Dictionary definition: Gabriel, Jacques-Jules

Article: Ange Jacques Gabriel
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...Ange Jacques Gabriel The buildings of the French architect Ange Jacques Gabriel (1698-1782) demonstrate elegant proportional ... expressiveness inherited from ancient Rome. Ange Jacques Gabriel was the most eminent 18th-century member ...

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Magnum Photos;  January 1, 2000 ;     208 words ... ... Loir-et-Cher Department. The town of Blois. The Jacques-Gabriel Bridge. Keywords: French (geographical) European Continent ... Loir-et-Cher Department. The town of Blois. The Jacques-Gabriel Bridge. FRANCE. FRANCE. 2000 2000 Magnum Photos

Dictionary definition: Hardouin-Mansart, Jules
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      594 words ... ... Vau and Bruant , and was eventually appointed to the important State offices associated with building, becoming Premier Architecte (1685) and Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi (1699). He worked with Bruant on the Church of St ...

Dictionary definition: Bélanger, François-Joseph
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      600 words ... ... x2013;1836—later King Charles X (reigned 1824–30)—to whom he had become premier architecte ), his design for the exquisite Parva sed Apta (small but fitting) Neo-Classical Pavillon de Bagatelle in ...

Article: Quebec de roc et de pierres.
Ethnologies;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... realisation dans la ville: Gaspard Chaussegros de Levy, le codificateur (p. 23), Thomas Baillarge ou le premier architecte du Bas-Canada (p. 57), Eugene Tache, le concepteur du Parlement. La ville moderne est evoquee au fil des ...

Dictionary definition: Gabriel, Ange-Jacques
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      548 words ... ... architects. He trained under his father, whom he succeeded as Contrôleur of Versailles (1735) and as Premier Architecte and Director of the Academy (1742). He was responsible for some of the most refined Classical buildings of ...

Dictionary definition: Geay, Jean-Laurent Le
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      500 words ... ... designed a water-garden at Schwerin and a larger (unexecuted) project for Ludwigslust), he was appointed Premier Architecte to King Frederick the Great of Prussia (reigned 1740–86) in 1756, for whom he designed the elegant ...