See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:PIERRE See also:BALTARD (1764-1846)
, See also:French architect and engraver, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:July 1764
.
He was originally a landscape painter, but in his travels through See also:Italy was so much struck with the beauty of the See also:Italian buildings, that he changed his profession and devoted himself to See also:architecture
.
In his new occupation he achieved See also:great success, and was selected to prepare the plans for some of the largest public edifices in Paris
.
His reputation, however, is chiefly based on his great skill in See also:engraving
.
Among the best known of his plates are the drawings of Paris (Paris et ses monuments, 2 vols. fol., i8o3), the engravings for See also:Denon's Egypte, the illustrations of See also:Napoleon's See also:wars (La Colonne de la grande armee), and those contained in the See also:series entitled the See also:Grand prix de l'architecture, which for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he carried on alone
.
He also gained distinction as an engraver of portraits
.
See also:Baltard died in Paris on the 22nd of See also:January 1846
.
BALTIC: See also:SEA
Two of his See also:children were also architects
.
Of these the more important was See also:VICTOR BALTARD (1805=1874), who was born in Paris on the loth of See also:June 1805
.
In 1803 he gained the prix de See also:Rome at the Ecole See also:des See also:beaux-arts for designing a military school
.
He was largely instrumental in introducing a See also:regular See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of See also:fresco decoration by See also:modern artists in the churches of Paris, to take the See also:place of the heterogeneous collections of pictures of all kinds with which their walls had been promiscuously decorated
.
He built many additions to existing churches, and also the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Augustin, in which he See also:united the structural values of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone and See also:steel
.
His most popular achievement was, however, the See also:building of the central See also:market in Paris
.
Victor Baltard also built the slaughter houses and the See also:cattle market of La See also:Villette
.
He died in Paris on the 13th of January 1874, after a See also:life of great activity in his profession
.
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