La mesure de l'expression : physiognomonie et caractère dans la Nouvelle méthode de Jean-Jacques Lequeu
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"Jean-François Bédard, 1992, sees similarities between Lequeu's Nouvelle méthode (1792) and Dissertation sur les especes naturelles by the Dutch naturalist Petrus Camper (1722-1789). "--Sholem Stein |
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La mesure de l'expression : physiognomonie et caractère dans la Nouvelle méthode de Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1992) is a book by Jean-François Bédard
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"The work of Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826) is often used by architectural historians to demonstrate the erosion of the principles of classical architecture at the end of the eighteenth century. The Nouvelle Methode appliquee aux Principes elementaires du dessin completed by Lequeu in 1792, a drawing method showing the correct proportions of the face obtained through geometry, reveal another Lequeu, one sympathetic to the architectural theories of his time. The similarities between the Nouvelle Methode and the Dissertation sur les especes naturelles by the Dutch naturalist Petrus Camper (1722-1789) show the importance of the notion of caractere in the structure of knowledge of the classical age as portrayed by Michel Foucault. Simultaneously a theory of physionomy and a theory of architecture, the Nouvelle Methode demonstrates that the theory of caractere in both disciplines, far from announcing the birth of the modern age, is central to the pursuit of order which sustained architecture in the classical age." --
