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Robert de Cotte (1656/7-1735), Principal Architect to the King of France, was among the most prominent European architects of his day. In a period that witnessed the ascendancy of Paris over Rome as the international center of fashion, princes and nobles in Germany, Italy, and Spain eagerly commissioned him to design buildings in the French court style. Robert Neuman provides the first comprehensive examination of fifty or so building projects by de Cotte, which include such extant works as the Hotel d'Estrees, Paris; Schloss Poppelsdorf, Bonn; and his universally acknowledged masterpiece, the Palais Rohan, Strasbourg. Neuman begins with a description of the royal architectural office under Louis XIV and Louis XV and then moves to a discussion of the function of architectural drawings and the impact of theoretical writings on architectural practice in the eighteenth century. The centerpiece of his book is a thorough survey of de Cotte's projects. Reflecting the eighteenth-century interest in classification, Neuman organizes this section by building type, analyzing in turn de Cotte's treatment of the palace and the country house, the public square and the town house, the church and

Author

Robert Neuman; Robert de Cotte

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226574370

Subjects

Architecture, History, Art

Rating

3.5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14