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Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679 – 10 March 1719) was a French architect and garden designer who became the chief architect of Saint Petersburg in 1716. ==Career in France== He was the son of Jean Le Blond, painter in ordinary to the king, a printseller on the Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, and his wife, Jeanne d'Eu. He studied architecture with his mother's brother Jean Girard, in the service of Philippe I, duc d'Orléans. Jacques-François Blondel implied that he had derived gardening expertise from André Le Nôtre, finding that Le Blond was :one of our Architects, who among us most knew how to profit from the precepts of the great Master... It must be agreed, however, that, in imitating them, it would be suitable to be provided with a certain intelligence〔"... l'un de nos Architectes, qui ont sçu mettre le plus à profit, parmi nous, les préceptes du grand Maître... Il faut convenir néanmoins que, pour les imiter, il conviendroit d'être pourvu d'une certaine intelligence" (''Cours d'Architecture'', iv, p 53, quoted in Strandberg 1974 p 65)〕 Indeed, Le Blond was responsible for more than simply the engravings in Dezallier d'Argenville's seminal work on the principles of French formal garden design, ''La théorie et la pratique du jardinage'', 1709: according to the well-informed connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette, chronicler of French artists, he laid out the structural "canvas" of the work and oversaw in detail its writing;〔"Le Blond a eu la plus grande part au livre intitulé ''La Théorie et La Pratique du Jardinage''... C'est lui qui non seulement a donné tous les desseins mais qui même a fait le canevas du livre qui a eté rempli sous ses yeux par M. Dezallier d'Argenville, aujourd'hui maître des comptes" (''Abecedario''), quoted in Strandberg 1974, p 60〕 the work was published anonymously, but in later editions Le Blond was credited with the text. Named ''architecte du Roi'', he made a set of presentation drawings, dated 1699, for the famous cascade and basin with its ''jet d'eau'' at royal Saint-Cloud〔The drawings are divided between the Tessin-Hårleman Collection, Riksarkivet, Stockholm and the Albertina (Strandberg 1974, p. 60, note 70; p. 65.〕 constructed several ''hôtels particuliers'' in Paris, notably the hôtel de Clermont, rue de Varenne, and the hôtel de Vendôme, rue d'Enfer (today boulevard Saint-Michel). As theoretician and illustrator of architecture, Le Blond produced the second (1710) and third (1720) editions of the ''Cours d'architecture de Vignole'' translated with commentary by Charles-Augustin d'Aviler, which Le Blond illustrated with his own drawings. These works introduced the distinctions between state apartments (''appartements de parade'') and private apartments (''appartements de commodités'') that would characterize French eighteenth-century planning, and he popularized the small chimneypieces that would take the place of the large ones in the Italian mode, popular in the previous century. He also provided illustrations for ''L’Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis'' (1706) by Michel Félibien. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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