BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

 

Author(s)

Fréart de Chambray, Roland
Title
Parallèle de l’architecture antique et de la moderne... Seconde édition augmentée des piedestaux...
Imprint Paris, C. Jombert, J. & J. Barbou, s.d.
Localisation Paris, Ensba, 1665 A 13
Subject Orders
Transcribed version of the text

French

     The undated edition which appeared from the shop of Claude Jombert and the Barbou brothers, Jean(-Joseph) and Joseph, is a reprint of the edition published in 1689 by the “merchant engraver” François Jollain the elder. It has the same characteristics: one hundred engraved pages of text and illustrations preceded by eight printed pages for the preface and the title page, the printers being satisfied to change the address and the date on the title page which keeps the comment even though it was null and void. (Seconde édition augmentée des piedestaux de chaque ordre suivant l’intention des mêmes autheurs). The plates are copies, sometimes inverted, of the ones in Jollain’s 1689 edition and the preface was repeated as it was.
This edition appeared during the first quarter of the 18thcentury between 1717 and 1732, a period during which the Barbou brothers co-signed their editions and during Claude Jombert’s period of activity (1700-1735). The reissue can be explained very probably by the success of the luxurious edition of the Parallèle published in 1702.

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2011

Critical bibliography

R. Fréart de Chambray, Parallèle de l’architecture avec la moderne (Paris, 1650), Critical edition prepared by F. Lemerle, followed by l’Idée de la perfection de la peinture, edition prepared by M. Stanic, Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2005.

F. Lemerle, "Fréart de Chambray : les enjeux du Parallèle", XVIIe siècle, 196, 1997, pp. 419-453.

F. Lemerle, "Une querelle des Anciens et des Modernes en architecture: Fréart de Chambray", Travaux de Littérature, XII, 1999, pp. 37-47.

F. Lemerle, "À l’origine du palladianisme européen : Pierre Le Muet et Roland Fréart de Chambray", Revue de l'art, 178, 2012-4, pp. 43-47.

F. Lemerle, "Le Parallèle et l’Idée", É. Lavezzi (ed.), Lectures de l’Idée de la perfection de la peinture, forthcoming in 2012.