Auguste Guenepin
Auguste Jean Marie Guenepin (17 June 1780 – 5 March 1842) was a French architect.
Auguste Guenepin, by Dominique Ingres
Guenepin was born and died in Paris. He was the son of Étienne François Edmé Guenepin (1752-24 December 1827) and Marie Madeleine Delfau (1753–1808) and Aimée Desenne's husband.
In 1805, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for architecture. In 1833, he was appointed at the Institut de France (Académie des Beaux-Arts).[1]
Main works
- Slaughterhouse of Montmartre
- Chapel of L'Île-Saint-Denis
- Church of Noisy-le-Sec
- Restoration of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris
- Restoration of the Sainte-Anne chapel of Notre-Dame de Paris
gollark: No, I mean, it has stuff in it other than the filtering and link tax nonsense, and those bits are okay.
gollark: 1. The other bits of the copyright directive actually make sense.2. Serious newscasters now have to talk about memes.
gollark: It has a good side, though.
gollark: That's good, or maybe bad.
gollark: Well, I don't live in America, but... probably. The companies there did already kind of do stuff like that anyway, I think.
References
- (in French) List of members of the Institut de France Institut-de-france.fr Archived 2006-11-17 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 June 2009
Authority control  |
|
|---|
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.