Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet | |
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Born |
[1] Lyon, France[1] | June 4, 1743
Died |
September 25, 1829 86)[1] Paris, France[1] | (aged
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Architect |
Buildings | Church of Sainte-Geneviève |
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (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.
References
- Frangsmyr, Tore, J. L. Heilbron & Robin E. Rider (eds.), The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990.
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