Publisher's Synopsis
Architecture in the Encyclop?die of Diderot and D'Alembert surveys the manner in which architecture and architectural subjects are portrayed in the great twenty-eight volume French Encyclop?die of Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, published between 1751 and 1772, and the seven volume Suppl?ment of Joseph Panckoucke, published between 1776 and 1780. The work encompasses architecture; fine arts (painting and sculpture); the art of building; carpentry and joinery; mechanical arts and metal work; military art and fortification; and gardens, gardening and landscape. The reader is provided with detailed inventories of the letterpress articles (discours) and plates (planches) to all these subjects which amount to nearly 5000 citations. These guide the reader/researcher to the source material and to the writers, artists and craftsmen who created the greatest encyclopaedic monument to the age of Enlightenment.
