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Gilles-Marie Oppenordt

French architect

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contribution to Rococo architecture

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: France

    …France from Russia, he, with Gilles-Marie Oppenordt and Juste-Aurèle Meissonier, who were increasingly concerned with asymmetry, created the full Rococo. Meissonier and Oppenordt should be noted too for their exquisite, imaginative architectural designs that were unfortunately never built (e.g., facade of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 1726, by Meissonier).

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