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Author Bergdoll, Barry.

Title Léon Vaudoyer : historicism in the age of industry / Barry Bergdoll
Published New York : Architectural History Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents Preface: The Contradictions of an Historicist's Career -- Ch. 1. A.-L.-T. Vaudoyer and the Origins of the Historicist Challenge of the 1830s -- Ch. 2. Artistic and Political Liberty in the Restoration: Leon Vaudoyer's Student Years, 1819-1826 -- Ch. 3. The French Academy in Rome, 1826-1832: Laboratory of Romantic Historicism -- Ch. 4. "The Veritable Ecriture des Peuples": Vaudoyer as Architectural Missionary in the 1830s and 1840s -- Ch. 5. Historicism in the Service of Industry: The Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, 1838-1872 -- Ch. 6. The Rise to Power of a Government Architect: Vaudoyer and the Second Empire, 1848-1855 -- Ch. 7. "An Eminently Political Act": Negotiating Marseille Cathedral, 1823-1852 -- Ch. 8. "Ancient City Without Antiquities": Designing and Building the Historicist Cathedral, 1845-1893 -- Conclusion: Leon Vaudoyer and the Culture of Academic Historicism
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index
Subject Vaudoyer, Lbeon, 1803-1872
Vaudoyer, Léon, 1803-1872.
Architects -- France -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
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LC no. 94007082
ISBN 0262023806