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    Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremere de Quincy (1755-1849) was a French architect, art theorist, and influential writer. He trained as a lawyer but became interested in art and architecture through studying in Paris and traveling to Naples. He was involved in French revolutionary politics as a royalist and Catholic. Throughout his career, he held important positions in French arts administration and wrote extensively on architecture, art history, and aesthetics. He helped shape Neoclassical architectural theory and the concept of "vernacular" styles.

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    Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremre de Quincy (21 October 1755


    28 December 1849) was a French armchair archaeologist and
    architectural theorist, a Freemason, and an effective arts
    administrator and influential writer on art.[1]
    Born in Paris, he trained for the law, then followed courses in art and
    history at the Collge Louis-le-Grand and apprenticed for a time in
    the atelier of Guillaume Coustou the Younger and Pierre Julien,
    getting some practical experience in the art of sculpture. A trip to
    Naples in the company of Jacques-Louis David sparked his interest
    in Greek and Roman architecture.
    He was involved in the troubles of the French Revolution. He was a
    royalist in the Legislative Assembly of 1791-2, and his politics were
    monarchist and Catholic. As a member of the Revolutionary
    Committee of Public Instruction his set of three Considerations on
    the arts of design in France was offered before the Assemble
    Nationale at a time (1791) when the continuation of the former
    academies was under question; he offered a program for their reform.

    Quatremre de Quincy, stipple


    engraving by Franois Bonneville

    in part by opening up the Paris salons.[2] In 1791-92 he orchestrated the conversion of the Church of SteGenevive in Paris (under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Rondelet) into the Panthon, infilling the windows
    to give it the character of a mausoleum.[3] In 1795 he was accused of taking part in the preparations for the
    royalist insurrection of 13 vendmiaire and condemned to death, but acquitted in time.
    In July 1796, Quatremere wrote a pseudo-epistolary treatise against the French plans to seize works of art
    from Rome, arguing that European powers should instead contribute a sum to the papacy for protecting art
    and knowledge.[4] Shortly afterward, he was behind a petition signed by forty-seven Parisian artists
    including Jacques-Louis David which questioned the benefits of displacing art from Rome; although
    prudently worded, there was a vituperative official response.[5]
    In the same year he was elected to the Council of Five Hundred from the Seine department, then went into
    hiding after taking part in a royalist coup; in exile in Germany, he read Immanuel Kant and Gotthold
    Lessing, whose philosophy informed his own theories of aesthetics. In 1800, back in Paris, he was appointed
    secretary general of the Seine council. From 1816 until 1839 he was perpetual secretary to the Acadmie des
    Beaux-Arts, which gave him great influence upon official architecture, and in 1818 he became a professor of
    archaeology at the Bibliothque Nationale. He briefly returned to politics in 1820.
    Quatremre de Quincy was the author of numerous articles and books. Between 1788 and 1825 he edited the
    Encyclopdie Mthodique, to which he contributed much of the text. His Dictionnaire historique de
    l'Architecture was published in 1832-33.[6] He wrote biographies of several artists: Antonio Canova (1823),
    Raphael (1824) and Michelangelo (1835).
    Quatremre de Quincy transformed the simple metaphor of architecture as language into a framework for
    reconceptualizing the structure of architecture; modern writers describing "vernacular" architecture, or the
    Baroque "idiom" or the "vocabulary" of Classicism owe a debt to Quatremre de Quincy[7]

    His essay De l'Architecture gyptienne, written for a competition posed by the Acadmie des Inscriptions et
    Belles-Lettres in 1785 and published in 1803, just as the Description de l'Egypte was in preparation,
    nevertheless was an important influence on the Egyptian Revival phase of Neoclassical architecture, for its
    theoretical observations concerning the origins of architecture rather than for its historical naivet.[8] He was
    among the first to point out the use of polychromy in Greek sculpture and architecture.[9] Though he insisted
    that landscape gardening could not be admitted among the fine arts, he was a key figure in the establishment
    of the first landscaped cemeteries, and his essay, translated into English as The Nature, the End and the
    Means of Imitation in the Fine Arts influenced J. C. Loudon.[10]

    Notes
    1. Dictionary of Art Historians: Quatremre de Quincy, Antoine Chrysthome. (http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.or
    g/quatremeredequincya.htm)
    2. Sylvia Lavin, Quatremre de Quincy and the invention of a modern language of architecture (MIT Press), 1992,
    "The Republic of the arts", esp. pp 158-75.
    3. James Stevens Curl, A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (http://www.encyclopedia.com), s.v.
    "Quatremre de Quincy".
    4. Translated as Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens (Los Angeles:
    Getty Research Institute, 2012).
    5. See David Gilks, "Art and politics during the First Directory: artists petitions and the quarrel over the confiscation
    of works of art from Italy in 1796 " French history 26(2012), pp. 53-78.
    6. Some passages translated and edited with an introduction by Samir Youns, The True, the Fictive and the Real: The
    historical Dictionary of Architecture of Quatremre de Quincy(Papadakis) 1999.
    7. Sylvia Lavin, Quatremre de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture (MIT Press) 1992.
    8. Sylvia Lavin, ("In the Names of History: Quatremere de Quincy and the Literature of Egyptian Architecture" Journal
    of Architectural Education 44.3 [May 1991:131-137]) remarks that "while the name of history was increasingly
    invoked to lend an impersonal and hence authoritative voice to studies of the past, the individual voices continued to
    speak in the ideologically motivated language of the present" (p. 131).
    9. Le Jupiter olympien, 1814.
    10. Garden Visits: Quatremre de Quincy (http://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/antoine-chrysostome_quatremere_de_
    quincy).

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