BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

 

Author(s) Savot, Louis
Title L’architecture françoise des bastimens particuliers
Imprint Paris, A. Robinot & J. Gesselin, 1642
Localisation Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, A.civ. 78
Subject Domestic architecture
Transcribed version of the text

French

     After Savot died, L’architecture françoise des bastimens particuliers was re-edited in 1642 by the booksellers Antoine Robinot and Jean Gesselin who had obtained a new privilege for five years.  The dedication to the marquis de la Vieuville was deleted, and both the table of contents and the text were revised.  It wasn't until 1673 that François Blondel produced an enlarged and updated edition, proof that Savot's work remained topical.

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

Critical bibliography

J. Ache, "Techniques de construction et formes architecturales au XVIIe siècle", Revue de la Société d'études du XVIIe siècle, 36-37, 1957, pp. 273-286.

J.-P. Babelon, Demeures parisiennes sous Henri IV et Louis XIII, Paris, Hazan, 1991.

M.-A. Fleury, Documents du minutier central concernant les peintres, les sculpteurs et les graveurs au XVIIe siècle (1600-1650), Paris, SEVPEN, 1969, 1, p. 512.

C. Parkhurst, "Louis Savot's Nova Antiqua Color Theory, 1609", J. Bruyn, J. A. Emmons, E. de Jongh & D. P. Snoep (ed.), Album amicorum J.-G. Van Gelder, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1973, pp. 242-247.

Y. Pauwels, "La bibliographie d’architecture de Louis Savot (1624)", Journal de la Renaissance, 5, 2007, pp. 371-382.

H. Rambach, "Louis Savot, la modernité d’un regard novateur", Europäische numismatische Literatur im 17. Jahrhundert, special issue, 2005, pp. 59-67.