By Christopher Drew Armstrong
This e-book examines the occupation and courses of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724–1803) and his influence on architectural conception and pedagogy.
Despite no longer leaving any outfitted paintings, Leroy is an incredible foreign determine of eighteenth-century architectural conception and tradition. contemplating where that Leroy occupied in a number of highbrow circles of the Enlightenment and progressive interval, this e-book examines the resources for his rules approximately architectural background and concept and defines his effect on next architectural suggestion. This booklet may be of key curiosity to graduate scholars and students of Enlightenment-era architectural history.
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