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Germain Boffrand ( French pronunciation: [ʒɛʁmɛ̃ bɔfʁɑ̃]) (16 May 1667 – 19 March 1754) was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself.
Apr 17, 2024 · Germain Boffrand (born May 7, 1667, Nantes, France—died March 18, 1754, Paris) was a French architect noted for the great variety, quantity, and quality of his work. Boffrand went to Paris in 1681, where, after studying sculpture for a time under François Girardon, he entered the workshop of the architect Jules Hardouin Mansart.
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1 day ago · A French architect who designed and built Parisian hôtels and palaces in Rococo style, influenced by Bernini and Mansart. He also wrote a book of architectural principles and was consulted by Neumann for Würzburg Residenz.
Gabriel Germain Boffrand (1667-1754) was a French architect and interior decorator whose mastery of the new Louis XV or rococo style widely influenced 18th-century architecture in France and abroad.
May 16, 1667 - Mar 19, 1754. Germain Boffrand was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the...
Jan 31, 2008 · Boffrand, Germain. Boffrand, Germain (1667-1754): French Architect. The architectural style of Germain Boffrand, the greatest French architect of the first half of the eighteenth-century, illustrates his debt to his predecessors, Louis Le Vau and François Mansart. Boffrand was born in Nantes in 1667, the son of a minor sculptor and architect.
Books. Book of Architecture: Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Some of the Edifices Built in France and in Foreign Countries. Germain...
