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Roland Fréart de Chambray
(died 1676)
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Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne (1650) and Idée de la perfection de la peinture (1662), appeared at a time when French architects were struggling to apply a new sense of discipline and order to the practice of building. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 13.
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About Roland Fréart de Chambray
Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne (1650) and Idée de la perfection de la peinture (1662), appeared at a time when French architects were struggling to apply a new sense of discipline and order to the practice of building. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 13.
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