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VAUDOYER, Antoine-Laurent-Thomas · 1782 →
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COMMENTARY
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This drawing, inscribed: 'Maggio 1782' is part of a series of projects from the 1780s and 1790s that try to think about the sphere as a built volume. The most famous is <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/b/boullee/cenotap2.html')" href="/html/b/boullee/cenotap2.html">Boullée's Newton Cenotaph</a> but it is one among many. It is not only the sphere that is fashionable at the time, but any kind of simple geometrical form: the square and the cube - also the pyramid, but the pyramid is associated with death.
@online{wga-rdb7e7a09a6eb9a,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Preliminary Study for the 'Maison d'un Cosmopolite' by VAUDOYER, Antoine-Laurent-Thomas},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vaudoyer-antoine-laurent-thomas-r7d1a0309940997/preliminary-study-for-the-maison-dun-cosmopolite-rdb7e7a09a6eb9a},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
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