Jacques Germain Soufflot

JacquesGermain Soufflot was a French architect in the international circle that introduced neoclassicism. His most famous work is the Panthon in Paris, built from 1755 onwards, originally as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve.

Soufflot was born in Irancy, near Auxerre. In the 1730s he attended the French Academy in Rome, where young French students in the 1750s would later produce the first fullblown generation of Neoclassical designers. Soufflots models were less the picturesque Baroque being built in modern Rome, as much as the picturesque aspects of monuments of antiquity.

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