Louis Pierre Baltard
| Louis-Pierre Baltard | |
|---|---|
| Presentation | |
| Birth | 9 July 1764 Paris, France |
| Deaths | 22 January 1846 (81 years) Lyon, France |
| Movement (s) | Neo-Classicism |
| Activity (s) | Landscape engraver architect |
| Training | Antoine-Franois Peyre |
| His students | Victor Baltard Paul-Eugene Lequeux |
| Work | |
| Achievements | Courthouse Lyons St. Joseph prison |
| Publications | Architectonographie prisons |
| Family circle | |
| Family | Baltard Victor (son) |
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Louis-Pierre Baltard, born in Paris on 9 July 1764 and died in Lyon on 22 January 1846 , is an architect , writer and painter French.
Summary |
The original landscape engraver, it was during a trip to Italy he discovered a passion for architecture. He begins his new career based on his reputation as an engraver and became one of the most famous architects of the generation neo-classical. He has worked extensively on prison architecture. He was a pupil of Antoine-Franois Peyre at the Royal Academy of Architecture.
He did as a volunteer some of the campaigns of the Revolution, became successively professor of architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1796 , then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1818 , architect of the Pantheon and jails , Board Member buildings and civil works publics.Il was in 1801 a founder of the Company incentive to the domestic industry.
He is the father of the architect Victor Baltard.
Engraving
It was engraved with a talent equal to Giovanni Battista Piranesi , many plates, either chisel , or the etching where to aquatint :
- Views of the monuments of Rome (1801)
- Travel in the Lower and Upper Egypt during the campaigns of General Bonaparte by Vivant Denon (1802)
- Paris and its monuments (1803)
- Travel in Spain by Alexandre de Laborde (1806)
- Column of the Grande Armee (1810)
- Travel in Spain by Alexandre de Laborde, Voyage to Thebes Cailliaud Frederick , of the Nubian Antiquities Franois Chrtien Gau , Grand Prize of architecture, collection continued by his son.
Louis-Pierre Baltard this is the catalog of the Chalcography of the Louvre.
Architecture
Louis-Pierre Baltard and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet were candidates in the contest for the transformation of the Pantheon in Paris in "Temple of Glory." In 1813 , the death of Alexander Theodore Brongniart , Baltard postulated to complete the Palais Brongniart. It will not be accepted.
- Chapelle de la Sainte-Pelagie prison , Paris.
- Infirmary and chapel of the prison Saint-Lazare , Paris (1834)
- Prison Saint Joseph , Lyon , district Perrache (1836)
- Courthouse (nicknamed "The 24 columns), Lyon, on the banks of the Saone (1842)
Books
- Architectonographie prisons, or Parallel various distribution systems including prisons are likely, depending on the number and nature of their population, the extent and form of land (1829) Text online. In this book, the first devoted to the architecture of prisons by a French architect, has different plans Baltard French and foreign jails and its own models. He advocates the hygienist and composition in separate neighborhoods.
Source
- This article includes excerpts from the dictionary Bouillet . You can remove this indication, if the text reflects the current knowledge on the subject, if sources are cited, it meets the current language and if it does not contain words that go against the rules neutrality of .
| Metadata person | |
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| NAME | Baltard, Pierre-Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | painter , engraver , architect neoclassical French , father of Victor Baltard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 9 July 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22 January 1846 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Lyon |
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