Architecture : $b nineteenth and twentieth centuries — John Shaqi
Architecture : $b nineteenth and twentieth centuriesHitchcock, Henry-Russell
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Architecture : $b nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Architecture, Modern -- 19th century; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
The Marché St Martin of 1811-16 by A.-M. Peyre (1770-1843), the Marché
des Carmes of 1813 by A.-L.-T. Vaudoyer (1756-1846), and the Marché St
Germain of 1816-25 by J.-B. Blondel (1764-1825), with their clerestory
lighting and open timber roofs, are typical of the more practical side
of Romantic Classicism.[31] The simple masonry vocabulary of these
Parisian markets, so straightforward and without Antique pretension, was
considered to be Italian (see Chapter 2).
The Napoleonic building flurry barely reached the provinces before its
short course was over. The theatre in Dijon, begun about 1805 by Jacques
Célérier (1742-1814), may be mentioned; but such plain square blocks
with frontal porticoes could have been, and were, built in almost
precisely the same form thirty years before—for example Ledoux’s theatre
at Besançon of 1775-84. At Pontivy in Brittany, then called
Napoléonville, the younger Gisors built a Préfecture in 1809 and a
Palace of Justice with associated prisons two years later. A rather dull
church, Saint-Vincent at Mâcon, repeating a model that had been new at
Saint-Philippe-du-Roule forty years earlier, was also erected by him in
1810. The pair of front towers was a novelty suggested by an earlier
project of Lebas.
It is quite characteristic of this period, so ready (as the French have
been ever since) to employ elderly architects and so content with
stylistic innovations that dated from before the Revolution, that
Mathurin Crucy (1749-1826) rebuilt in 1808-12 the theatre in Nantes—very
like that at Dijon—in exactly the same form as it had originally been
designed by him in 1784-8; while he also finished in 1809-12 the Bourse
and Tribunal de Commerce there which he had begun in 1791, just after
the Revolution started, with no change in the original design. The
setting of his theatre in the Place Graslin provided by continuous
ranges of five-storey houses is presumably contemporary; despite the
rather high roofs, the façades are notably crisp and smooth. The
rusticated arcuation of the lower storeys might make plausible a date in
the 1780s, but the rather thin and geometrically detailed iron balcony
railings suggest rather the first or second decade of the new century,
when the theatre was rebuilt.
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