Julien-David Le Roy
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| - | '''Julien David Le Roy''' (6 May 1724 in [[Paris]] – 28 January 1803 in Paris) was an 18th-century French [[architect]] and [[archaeologist]], who engaged in a rivalry with | + | '''Julien David Le Roy''' (6 May 1724 in [[Paris]] – 28 January 1803 in Paris) was an 18th-century French [[architect]] and [[archaeologist]], author of ''[[Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece]]'' four years ahead of Stuart and Revett's ''[[The Antiquities of Greece]]''. |
| - | Britons [[James Stuart (1713-1788)|James Stuart]] and [[Nicholas Revett]] over who would publish the first professional description of the [[Acropolis of Athens]] since an early 1682 work by [[Antoine Desgodetz]]. Le Roy succeeded in printing his ''[[Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece]]'' four years ahead of Stuart and Revett. | + | |
| Julien-David Le Roy was the son of a court clockmaker [[Julien Le Roy]], studied architecture under [[Jacques-François Blondel]] (''le petit Blondel''), and travelled to [[Rome]] on an Academy scholarship in 1751–1754. He had three brothers: [[Pierre Le Roy|Pierre]] (1717–1785) another clockmaker, [[Jean-Baptiste Le Roy|Jean-Baptiste]] (1720-1800), a physicist and [[Encyclopédistes|Encyclopédiste]], and [[Charles Le Roy (physician)|Charles]] (1726–1779), a physician as well as an Encyclopédiste. | Julien-David Le Roy was the son of a court clockmaker [[Julien Le Roy]], studied architecture under [[Jacques-François Blondel]] (''le petit Blondel''), and travelled to [[Rome]] on an Academy scholarship in 1751–1754. He had three brothers: [[Pierre Le Roy|Pierre]] (1717–1785) another clockmaker, [[Jean-Baptiste Le Roy|Jean-Baptiste]] (1720-1800), a physicist and [[Encyclopédistes|Encyclopédiste]], and [[Charles Le Roy (physician)|Charles]] (1726–1779), a physician as well as an Encyclopédiste. | ||
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Julien David Le Roy (6 May 1724 in Paris – 28 January 1803 in Paris) was an 18th-century French architect and archaeologist, author of Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece four years ahead of Stuart and Revett's The Antiquities of Greece.
Julien-David Le Roy was the son of a court clockmaker Julien Le Roy, studied architecture under Jacques-François Blondel (le petit Blondel), and travelled to Rome on an Academy scholarship in 1751–1754. He had three brothers: Pierre (1717–1785) another clockmaker, Jean-Baptiste (1720-1800), a physicist and Encyclopédiste, and Charles (1726–1779), a physician as well as an Encyclopédiste.
Le Roy's ideas were materialized in the Church of Saint Genevieve, a project led by his friend Jacques-Germain Soufflot. Le Roy directly advised Soufflot on the philosophy and history of architecture and provided a classic single-sheet scheme of principal Christian church types, solving the problem of marrying the dome with cross-shaped floorplan.
