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Pierre Le Muet (7 October 1591 – 28 September 1669)〔Mignot 1996.〕 was a French architect, military engineer, and writer, famous for his book ''Manière de bâtir pour toutes sortes de personnes'' (1623 and 1647),〔"The way to build for persons of every degree".〕 and for the châteaux he constructed, most notably Tanlay in Burgundy, as well as some modest houses in Paris, the grandest of which, the Hôtel d'Avaux (1644-1650) survives and has recently been restored to a semblance of its seveneenth-century condition. ==Early life and career== Le Muet was born in Dijon. His father, Philippe Le Muet, was a guardsman in the artillery corps of Burgundy. Pierre Le Muet is mentioned as Architecte Ordinaire du Roi in 1616, when he was paid for a model of the Palais du Luxembourg. From 1617 to about 1637, he was a military engineer. In this capacity he accompanied the royal armies in the south of France. There are surviving plans of fortifications in Picardie (dated 1631, now in the Bibliothèque Arsenal in Paris) and documentation of work in Péronne and Corbie, Somme (1635–1638). There is also a ground-floor plan of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris, work on which was interrupted at an early stage.〔 From the available evidence, he was mostly active in this period as a theorist and publisher, producing in 1623 the first edition of his ''Manière de bâtir'', a collection of models for town houses in the Parisian mode, designed to occupy eleven lots from the simplest most constricted plot of urban land to ''hôtels particuliers'' of middling importance. Claude Mignot points out that Le Muet's model in this enterprise was Sebastiano Serlio, whose sixth book, ''Architettura, degli habitationi de tutti li gradi degli huomini'' was already circulating in France in manuscript.〔Mignot 1996, 2005. Salomon de Brosse's manuscript copy is at the Avery Library of Columbia University.〕 The enlarged second edition of ''Manière'' (1647) added a second volume of ''Augmentations de nouveaux bastimens.'' Its engraved illustrations mark the earliest appearance of Jean Marot as an engraver of architectural designs. In 1631 Le Muet married Marie Autissier, daughter of Jean Autissier, one of the leading building contractors of the time. This brought Le Muet closer to the social milieu of his architect contemporaries Jacques Le Mercier, François Mansart, and Louis Le Vau.〔 In 1631–1632, Le Muet published a French translation of Vignola's ''Regola delle cinque ordini d'architectura'', from a four-language Dutch edition of 1619. Le Muet's version includes ten previously unpublished designs for doors. He also published a French adaptation (1645) of Paladio's ''First Book of Architecture'', which in 1650 was succeeded by a more faithful and complete version by Fréart de Chambray.〔 ''Manière de bâtir'' with his ''Augmentations'' was republished by Jean De Puis in 1663-1664 and François Jollain in 1681, and in London a translation was published by Robert Pricke, ''The Art of Sound Building'' (1670).〔Mignot 2005.〕 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「Pierre Le Muet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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