Background
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was born in Paris on January 27, 1814. Viollet-le-Duc's father was a civil servant living in Paris who collected books; his mother's Friday salons were attended by Stendhal and Sainte-Beuve.
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Annals of a Fortress: Twenty-two Centuries of Siege Warfare (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
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Combining the excitement of a novel with the authenticity of a historical document, this gripping book chronicles a castle's rise from obscurity to international attention during the nineteenth century. It profiles a fictional fortress, La Roche-Pont, for an unusual survey of the evolving art of siege warfarefrom Gallic tribes attempting to hold off the might of the Roman empire through medieval feuds, protracted religious conflicts of the seventeenth century, and the Napoleonic and Franco-Prussian Wars. The noted architect Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (18141879) was in a unique position to write this book. A central figure in France's Gothic Revival, Viollet-le-Duc had a second career in the military that included a prominent role in the defense of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. With this accessible, well-researched study, he exerted an enduring influence on French military defensive thinking. Subtle and enchanting in its blend of fact and fiction, Annals of a Fortress continues to offer a brilliant evocation of more than 2,000 years of European warfare.
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Lectures on Architecture, Volume I: 1 (Dover Architecture)
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Volume 1 of an unabridged reprint of extremely influential work by great 19th-century architect, champion of the Gothic Revival. Coverage of Greek and Roman architecture, Byzantine architecture, teaching of architecture, monumental sculpture, domestic architecture, much more. Over 230 engravings and woodcuts (most by Viollet-le-Duc) enhance the text. Republication of rare English edition (18771881).
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Lectures On Architecture; Volume 2
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Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame (Dover Pictorial Archive)
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Architect and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (181479), a prominent leader in the French Gothic Revival, was active in the restoration of medieval buildings. In 1845 he undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration: the cleansing and restoration of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. For the next twenty-three years he labored at his task, returning the cathedral to its original beauty and charm. This volume is based on a faithful reproduction of the restored mural paintings of the chapels, notable for their originality of design and the soft and subtle harmony of their coloring. The 60 full-page plates lend themselves to numerous graphic arts applications.
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Castles and Warfare in the Middle Ages (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
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This profusely illustrated and thoroughly researched book describes in detail the diverse methods used to attack and defend castles during the Middle Ages. In a groundbreaking study the first to shed light on the purpose, construction techniques, and effectiveness of medieval fortifications, noted nineteenth-century architect and writer Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc discusses such architectural elements as dungeons, keeps, battlements, and drawbridges. In addition to describing a vast number of European structures among them fortifications at Carcassonne, Paris, Avignon, Vincennes, Lubeck, Milan, and Nuremberg he examines the use of artillery and trenches, as well as such weapons as battering rams, mines, and the long-bow. A concise, scholarly reference for architectural historians, this absorbing history will appeal as well to medievalists, military buffs, and anyone interested in the evolution and development of the castle.
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Learning to Draw, or the Story of a Young Designer (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Learning to Draw, or the Story of a Young Designer It is peculiarly characteristic of his comprehensive method of instruction; and, while starting from so simple a text as a child's sketch of a cat, it embraces in its moderate compass a very wide range of information, all of which is shown to belong to a proper comprehension of the business of learning to draw. Le Duc maintained that the perceptive faculties must be thor oughly developed and cultivated before it is possible to know whether or not the student possesses any creative power. He insisted, further, that it is possible to cause art and what is admirable in man's handiwork, as well as the beauty of God's creation, to be comprehended by undeveloped as well as by educated minds; and this belief formed the keynote of much of his life's work. With this end in view he addressed himself with as much earnestness to young students as to servants, and always took pains to find the simplest methods of expressing the instruction he had to give. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Mont Blanc: A Treatise On Its Geodesical and Geological Constitution; Its Transformations; and the Ancient and Recent State of Its Glaciers
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The Foundations of Architecture: Selections from the Dictionnaire Raisonne
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Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) is widely recognized as the most astute and influential architectural theorist of his era. His greatest work is the ten-volume Descriptive dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century (Dictionnaire raisonne de l'architecture francaise du XIeme au XVIeme siecle) . For the first time, the four most important essays have been collected and translated into English. These essays treat the history of French architecture, the principles of construction, the relationship between style and architecture, and the art of restoration. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Discourses on architecture
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Emmanuel Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Edit ProfileEducation
He rejected the idea of a formal architectural education at the École des Beaux-Arts, and in 1830 he began to study architecture, first with J. J. M. Huvé and later with Achille Leclère.
Career
As professor of composition and ornament, he taught for a short period at the École de Dessin, Paris. In 1840 the Commission of Historical Monuments assigned Viollet-le-Duc the task of restoring the Romanesque church of La Madeleine at Vézelay. During the same year, in association with J. B. A. Lassus, Viollet-le-Duc restored the Ste-Chapelle, Paris, and in 1844 they won the competition for the restoration of Notre Dame, Paris. Viollet-le-Duc also restored the town of Carcassonne; the château at Pierrefonds; the cathedrals of Sens, Narbonne, Toulouse, and Amiens; the abbey church of Saint-Denis; and Notre-Dame-du-Port at Clermont-Ferrand. His philosophy was "to restore [the building] to a state of completeness that may never have existed. " Viollet-le-Duc adapted Gothic forms to metal and iron and was interested in the decorative possibilities of the material, as expressed by the medieval smithy. His authoritative studies of Gothic architecture were the Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XI au XVI siècle (10 vols. , 1854 - 1868) and the Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance (6 vols. , 1858 - 1875). His Entretiens sur l'architecture (part 1, 1862-1863, part 2 1868-1872) expressed his philosophy of the functional structure of the Gothic style as employed in his own projects, some of which were of iron construction. His "vaulting systems for large spaces" utilized diagonal and vertical supports in compression and tension, as supports and hangers, with socket knuckle joints. In some cases wrought-iron decoration was fastened to the structure. Viollet-le-Duc's own architectural compositions were comparable to the bold and forceful creations of the High Victorian Gothic style in England. His tomb for the Duc de Morny (1858) in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris and the church of St-Denys-de-l'Estrée at Saint-Denis (1864 - 1867) reflect this trend. The architect was a favorite of Empress Eugénie and, with the support of Napoleon III, became professor of the history of art and esthetics at the École des Beaux-Arts after curriculum changes of 1863, partially instigated by his publication of articles on architectural education. His appointment was not a success. Viollet-le-Duc died in Lausanne, Switzerland, on September 17, 1879.
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His works were largely restorative and few of his independent building designs were ever realised. Strongly contrary to the prevailing Beaux-Arts architectural trend of his time, much of his design work was largely derided by his contemporaries. He was the architect hired to design the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty, but died before the project was completed.
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Learning to Draw, or the Story of a Young Designer (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Learning to Draw, or the Story of a Young De...)
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Annals of a Fortress: Twenty-two Centuries of Siege Warfare (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
( Combining the excitement of a novel with the authentici...)
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Designs and Ornaments from the Chapels of Notre Dame (Dover Pictorial Archive)
( Architect and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (...)
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Castles and Warfare in the Middle Ages (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
( This profusely illustrated and thoroughly researched bo...)
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Lectures On Architecture; Volume 2
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
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Mont Blanc: A Treatise On Its Geodesical and Geological Constitution; Its Transformations; and the Ancient and Recent State of Its Glaciers
( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)
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Lectures on Architecture, Volume I: 1 (Dover Architecture)
( Volume 1 of an unabridged reprint of extremely influent...)
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The Foundations of Architecture: Selections from the Dictionnaire Raisonne
(Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) is widely recognized as the mo...)
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Discourses on architecture
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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Learning to Draw, or the Story of a Young Designer (Classic Reprint)
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France