Les livres d'architecture
| Author(s) | Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques |
|---|---|
| Title | Livre d’architecture... auquel sont contenues diverses ordonnances de plants et élévations de bastiments... |
| Imprint | Paris, s.n., 1582 |
| Localisation | Paris, Ensba, Les 1592 |
| Subject | Castles, Gardens |
The first Livre published in 1559 contained fifty models of residences for all classes of society and all purses; the third Livre showed twenty-eight.
The 1582 Livre appeared in the same circumstances as the 1559 version. In spite of political troubles, the construction sector, thus the market for books of models, did not slow down. The new collection was not only a response to foreign publications, to Andrea Palladio’s Quattro libri dell’architettura (Venice, 1570), to Sebastiano Serlio’s Livre VII (in Latin and Italian, Frankfurt am Main, 1575) but also to works published in France, in particular those by Philibert De l’Orme so critical to the “faiseurs d’images” (Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir, Paris, 1561; Le premier tome de l’architecture, Paris, 1567). But outside of his commercial interests, Du Cerceau also defends his scientific objectives, the heuristic action of the design, and particularly of the drawing in perspective.
Françoise Boudon (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris) – 2004
Critical bibliography
J. Androuet du Cerceau, Les trois livres d’architecture : Paris, 1559, 1561, 1582, (facsimile edition ), Ridgewood N. J., Gregg Press Inc., 1965.
J. Androuet du Cerceau, Les plus excellents bastiments de France…, D. Thomson (ed.), Paris, Sand & Conti, 1988 (Documentary chronology and general bibliography, pp. 310-316). F. Boudon, “Les livres d’architecture de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau”, J. Guillaume (ed.), Les traités d’architecture de la Renaissance, Paris, Picard, 1988, pp. 367-396.
M. Chatenet, “Les maisons des champs de papier : fiction et réalité des modèles de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau”, M. Chatenet (ed.), La Maison des champs dans l’Europe de la Renaissance, Paris, Picard, 2006, pp. 69-86.
H. von Geymüller, Les Du Cerceau. Leur vie et leur œuvre d’après les nouvelles recherches, Paris/Londres, Rouam/Wood & Co, 1887.
D. Thomson, Renaissance Architecture. Critics Patrons Luxury, Manchester/New York, Manchester UP, 1993.
D. Thomson, “Les trois Livres d’architecture de Jacques I Androuet Du Cerceau, à Paris en 1559, 1561 et 1582″, S. Deswarte-Rosa (ed.), Sebastiano Serlio à Lyon. Architecture et imprimerie Lyon, Mémoire Active, 2004, pp. 449-450.