Decorative games: ornament, rhetoric, and noble culture in the work of gilles-marie oppenord (1672-1742)
Auteur :
Bédard, Jean-François
Éditeur :
University of Delaware Press
ISBN :
9781644531440
Date de publication :
11 mars 2011
Dimensions :
29,0 x 22,4 cm
Poids :
454 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). In charge of the buildings and grounds of Philippe, duke of Orléans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV, Oppenord was at the centre of the architectural practice of his time.