Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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nof distinguished talent, had been given a free hand by Stanislas,and found in Lamour an artist, of whose exceptional gifts he madeexceptional use. To their conjunction is due the existence ofNancy—a town which preserves to this day the peculiar physio-gnomy which it bore when recreated : having an autocraticstateliness of bearing which induces us to overlook much emptyformality and even many lapses from that perfection of taste indetails which is the virtue of fine art. Rarely has an architect hadthe fortune to realize schemes as vast as those which EmmanuelHere carried out in Lorraine. Employed by Stanislas at Chante-heux, at Luneville2 and La Malgrange, the building of churches 1 1705-1763. For his work see his Recueil des Plans et Elevations des chateaux,jardins et dependances que le roi de Pologne occupe en Lorraine, and Plans etElevations de la Place Royale de Nancy. 2 The chateau is now converti en caserne. LArt en Alsace-Lorraine,p. 514. ►J s 2 m o < H < RS5 < cPQ
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and convents led up to the final enterprise at Nancy, just as the Theworks of the Place de la Carriere served as a prelude to those House1which made the Place Stanislas the glory of the town, and theEmmanuel Here showed himself here original, not, as I think, in Great • • 4< places any feature of construction, but by the way in which he turned toaccount the exuberant genius of Jean Lamour. The Place of Nancy, in virtue of this singular combination,stands out in contrast to all similar works then carried out inFrance. The Place Royale of Bordeaux, now Place de laBourse, is, to my mind, far the finest of all those that were inconstruction at this date. La Ville de Bordeaux, writesPiganiol, a fait faire en 1733 une Place dans le Faubourg duChapeau Rouge sur les dessins de M. Gabriel, premier architectedu roi.1 The works began when, on the 8th August of that year,the first stone was laid of the pedestal destined to receive, ten yearslater, the statue of Louis XV., by Jean-Baptiste

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