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French architect (1713–1780)

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (French pronunciation:[ʒakʒɛʁmɛ̃suflo], 22 July 1713 – 29 August 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism.

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Jacques-Germain Soufflot was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism.

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One of the greatest architects in 18th century France, Jacques Germain Soufflot was an early representative of the new school of Neoclassical architecture.

Soufflot was heralded during his life as the restorer of greatness in French architecture and the building was lauded, even before it was completed, as one of.

His most famous work is the Panthéon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve.

Biography

Soufflot was born in Irancy, near Auxerre. In the 1730s he attended the French Academy in Rome, where young French students in the 1750s would later produce the first full-blown generation of Neoclassical designers.

Soufflot's models were less the picturesque Baroque being built in modern Rome, as much as the picturesque aspects of monuments of antiquity.

After returning to France, Soufflot practiced in Lyon, where he built the Hôtel-Dieu, like a chaste riverside street facade, interrupted by the central former chapel, its squared dome with illusionistic diminishing coffers on the interior.

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