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Item Number: 106499
Title: Autant de modèles de bon gout : JEAN-FRANCOIS DE NEUFFORGE et l'architecture du XVIIe siècle
Author: de Jonge, Krista ; D. van de Vijver (eds)
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ISBN: 9782503528274
Description: Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 28cm., pbk., 220pp. illus. Summary: The engraver Jean-François de Neufforge, born in Liège but active in Paris, played a major role on the architectural scene of late eighteenth-century Europe. The Recueil élémentaire d'Architecture and its Supplément (1756-1780), together numbering over 900 plates, offered an unending source of inspiration for modern architectural compositions in the latest fashion, called "à la grecque" at the time. The Austrian Low Countries in particular discovered the architecture of the French avant-garde in this fashion; Neufforge's oeuvre thus constitutes a pivotal moment of exchange with the North. Based on an international symposium organised at the Catholic University of Leuven, this book is the first to offer a critical analysis of Neufforge's engravings: their genesis, conception and reception. The influence of his oeuvre on contemporary architectural practice is studied for the Southern Low Countries and in the Princedom of Liège, Switzerland and Russia. This volume offers also newly discovered archival documents and a critical catalogue of plates which describes the variations between the different editions. (Architectura Moderna, Architectural Exchanges in Europe, 16th-17th Centuries, 8 ^Publication delayed to 2013^)

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