The French architectJacquesGermainSoufflot (1713-1780) was in the forefront of those responsible for launching the neoclassic movement that was to sweep over Europe in the early 19th century.
JacquesGermainSoufflot was born in Irancy, Yonne, on July 22, 1713.
Although Soufflot built two town houses in Paris and several garden pavilions at Ménars for Marigny, these architectural accomplishments pale beside his imaginative design for the church of Ste-Geneviève (now the Panthéon) in Paris; begun in 1756, it was finished in 1792, 12 years after his death in Paris on Aug. 29, 1780.
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'JacquesGermainSoufflot' (July 22, 1713 - August 29, 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced Neoclassicism.
After returning to France, Soufflot practiced in Lyon, where he built the ''Hotel-Dieu'', like a chaste riverside street facade, interrupted by the central former chapel, its squared dome with iillusionistic diminishing coffers on the interior.
He was accepted into the Lyon Academy.A more cceative trip to Italy was made when the mature Soufflot returned in 1750 in the company of the future Marquis de Marigny, the talented young brother of Madame de Pompadour, who was being groomed for his future as director of the King's buildings.
JacquesGermain Soufflot[zhAk zhermaN´ sOOflO´] Pronunciation Key, 1709–80, French architect, noted chiefly as the designer of the PanthEon (see under pantheon) (1764–89) in Paris.
The building is crowned by a majestic masonry dome, and can be considered one of the great monuments of neoclassicism in the 18th cent.
The dome was uncompleted at Soufflot's death, and the work was continued by others and completed by his pupil J. Rondelet.
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Soufflot returned to Italy in 1750 in the company of the future Marquis de Marigny.
Utilizing classic principles he used a 'strictness of line, firmness of form, simplicity of contour, and rigorously architectonic conception of detail' which contrasted sharply with the architecture of his contemporaries.
Soufflot showed an unusual interest in Gothic architecture at a time when most architects considered Gothic architecture barbaric.
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot, François Boucher, Maurice Jacques, Louis Tessier, and workshop of Jacques Neilson at the Gobelins manufactory: Boucher aux Alentours (the Croome Court tapestry room) (58.75.1-22)
General conception by Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), pictorial medallions by François Boucher (1703–1770), decorative surrounds (alentours) and some of the furniture covers by Maurice Jacques (1712–1784), the rest of the furniture covers by Louis Tessier (1719/20–1781); Woven in the basse-lisse workshop of Jacques Neilson (1714–1788) at the Gobelins manufactory, 1764–71
"Jacques-Germain Soufflot, François Boucher, Maurice Jacques, Louis Tessier, and workshop of Jacques Neilson at the Gobelins manufactory: Boucher aux Alentours (the Croome Court tapestry room) (58.75.1-22)".
Devenu surintendant des bâtiments du roi, le Marquis de Marigny nomme Soufflot « Contrôleur des bâtiments du Roi » et le fera admettre dans la première classe de l'Académie royale d'architecture de Paris, décorer chevalier de l'ordre de Saint-Michel et le nommera directeur de la manufacture des Gobelins.
Soufflot est également convié à réfléchir sur la rénovation du Louvre et émettra quelques propositions qui n'eurent pas le temps d'être mises en pratique.
Soufflot et l'architecture des lumières, École nationale supérieure des beaux arts, Paris (France), ISBN 2-903639-00-0, 1986.
“Soufflot’s principal aim in the church, he claimed, was to unite ‘the structural lightness of Gothic churches with the purity and magnificence of Greek architecture.’ The extreme structural economy of the building and its French rationalist bias for columnar structure is apparent in the plan.
Much of the vaulting is cut away in late Baroque manner, although in their near-skeletal lightness, these upper parts were also inspired by the Gothic.
The complex transitional position of Soufflot is clearly evidenced in the exterior of the Panthéon, which is so much more massive and austere than the interior that one would not naturally link them as two aspects of a single building.
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She tries to make the class as interesting as possible, she's fun, she's an easy grader and she wants everyone to do well.
I wish she'd teach upper level French courses cause I would sign up for her class in a second.
Germain an A. She is NOT a hard grader -- tries to be nice and friendly with class; class wasn't difficult, however you are learning a foreign language but she tries to accomodate
