Vaudoyer, Léon
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Vaudoyer, Léon (1803–72). French architect, the son of A. -L. -T.
Vaudoyer. With
Duban,
Duc, and
Labrouste he became a leading light in architectural circles in the 1830s, and carried out major work at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris (1845–72), in which he synthesized Graeco-Roman and
Renaissance elements anf restored much of the surviving
Gothic fabric (the conversion of St-Martin-des-Champs into the Conservatoire had been started by his father, and was completed by
Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet (1829–95) ). that the Greek Classical ideal was central to all subsequent architecture in Southern Europe, he attempted in his own designs to demonstrate a further transformation for modern times, as in his Cathedral-Church of Ste-Marie-Majeure, Marseilles (1855–72), the overall stylistic effect of which is that of a
Byzantine Romanesque basilica with
polychrome strips recalling the Duomo at Siena (the building was completed by
Jacques-Henry Espérandieu (1829–74),
Henri-Antoine Révoil (1820–1900), and Vaudoyer's son,
Alfred Lambert Vaudoyer (1846–1917) ). He also designed the elegant Greek
Doric monument of Général Maximilien-Sébastien Foy (1775–1825), Père-Lachaise Cemetery (1825–32), and the Vaudoyer
mausoleum, Montparnasse Cemetery (1846), both in Paris. He published several important works including perceptive articles on
Ledoux in the 1850s in which he referred to
architecture parlante (architecture expressive of its purpose).
Bibliography
Bergdoll (1994a);
Drexler (ed.) (1977);
Hitchcock (1977);
Middleton & and Watkin (1987);
Placzek (ed.) (1982)
Jane Turner (1996);
van Zanten (1982)
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