# Plan for a Métropole [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOULLÉE, Étienne-Louis]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Drawing ## Commentary The project for a 'métropole' was included in Boullée's unpublished 'Essai sur l'Art.' The massive dome on the cruciform building with an encircling colonnade is derived both from Soufflot's Sainte-Geneviève and Bramante's project for St. Peter's in Rome. However, the scale underwent a considerable enlargement here. He presented interior views, with the rows of columns and massive barrel vault, shoving both day and night aspects, that is the different effects of sunlight streaming in and a ghostly artificial lighting. The drawing shows the daytime view of the exterior with sunlight. ## Related artworks - [Cenotaph for Isaac Newton]() - [Cenotaph for Isaac Newton]() - [Plan for a Métropole]() - [Plan for a national library]() - [Plan for rebuilding the Palace of Versailles]() - [Proposal for a Museum: Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()