Jean-Laurent Le Geay (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean-Laurent Le Geay was a French neoclassical architect with an unsatisfactory career largely spent in Germany. His artistic personality remained shadowy until recently, though he was allowed to have had numerous pupils among the avant-garde of neoclassicism. He won the Prix de Rome in architecture in 1732, which, after an unaccountable delay, sent him for study to the French Academy in Rome from December 1738 to January 1742, when the Director, Jean Fran ois de Troy, remarked of him on his departure "il y a du feu et du g nie"