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Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (21 October 1755 – 28 December 1849) was a French armchair archaeologist and architectural theorist, a Freemason, and an effective arts administrator and influential writer on art.
Quatremère de Quincy, an Italophile archaeologist who had been trained as a sculptor, united the school of architecture with that of painting and sculpture to form a single organization, so that, although architectural students were ultimately given their own professor of theory, the whole theoretical….
Sep 1, 1992 · Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of the fundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form of language. In thi...
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Leader of the French Académie under Napoleon; theorist and historian of 18th century French art; artistic biographer. Quatremère initially studied law before taking courses in art and history at the Collège de Louis-le-Grand. He also trained as a sculptor by Guillaume Coustou and Pierre Julien. After visiting Naples with Jacques-Louis David, and la...
[Kulterman lists Quatremère de Quincy’s works extensively, p.122]; Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages des plus célèbres architectes du XIe siècle jusqu’ à la fin du XVIIIe, accompagnée de la vie du plus remarquable édifice de chacun d’eux. 2 vols. Paris: Renouard, 1830; Déotte, Jean Louis, ed. Considérations morales sur la destination des ouvrages ...
Schneider, René. L’esthétique classique chez Quatremère de Quincy (1805-1823). Paris: Hachette, 1910; Kultermann, Udo. Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte: Der Weg einer Wissenschaft. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, 1981, pp. 120-22; Watkin, David. The Rise of Architectural History. London: Architectural Press, 1980, p. 24; Bazin, Germain. Histoire...
A comprehensive biography of the French art theorist and historian of the 18th century, who advocated Neo-Classical style and artistic freedom. Learn about his life, works, influences, and legacy in the field of art history.
Feb 7, 2008 · • Born Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy on October 28, 1755 in Paris, France • His cloth merchant family was of a Parisian bourgeois • Attended College Louis-le-Grande to study law and later learned sculpture at G. Courstou’s atlier. • 1776 traveled to Italy, visiting Naples with Jacques Louis David
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art critic, archaeologist and academician, Antoine Quatremère de Quincy. During the revolutionary wars of the late-1790s, prime examples of classical sculpture and renaissance painting were plundered by Napoléon Bonaparte and put on show in what is now the Musée du Louvre, then simply known as the 'Muséum'. During this period, France
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purposes in 1776, by Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy at the age of twenty-one, which gave that logical meaning to the cult for antiquity – especially in ancient Greece – for which he is
