Louis Jean Desprez
Ancient Scene With A Funeral Ceremony For An Actor
The Capture Of Selinus By Hannibal
Tomb With Death Enthroned As A Sphinx
The Chimera
The Tomb Of Agamemnon
Classical Amphitheater
The Cathedral At Trani
The Funeral Procession Of Agamemnon
King Gustav IIi Attending Christmas Mass In 1783, In St Peter's. Rome
A Night-time Ceremony Before The Temple Of Isis. Pompeii
Hamilcar Attacking The City Of Agrigentum
Louis Jean Desprez (occasionally but incorrectly Jean Louis Desprez) ca 1743–18 March 1804 was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.
Desprez, who was born in Auxerre in Bourgogne, studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of the Académie royale d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italy and was associated with Piranesi in Rome, when he came to the attention of Swedish King Gustavus III, who offered him a two-year contract as director of scenic decorations at the new Stockholm Opera founded by the King two years earlier. His first task there was the decorations for the new opera Gustavus Vasa (with a libretto authored by the King in collaboration with Johan Henric Kellgren and music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann).
As an architect, Desprez designed in a monumental, neoclassical style influenced by his study of Greek and Roman ruins in the south of Italy and in Sicily. A good example of this is Hämeenlinna Church in Finland - Finland at that time still being part of the Swedish kingdom - completed in 1799. His greatest project was one never realized: the magnificent new palace planned by the King for the Haga Park outside Stockholm. Because of lack of money, only the foundations were ever built and the project was abandoned after the assassination of the King. The smaller "royal pavilion" which stands at Haga was built by another architect, Olof Tempelman. His most significant completed project was the conservatory building in the new botanical garden in Uppsala, inaugurated after his death on May 13, 1807, the 100th anniversary of Linnaeus's birth. He also built the Villa Frescati in 1791-92 for Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, after which the whole Frescati area in Stockholm later was named.
Illumination de la Croix de Saint Pierre à Rome
The Copper Tent at Haga Park
The conservatory in the Botanical Garden, Uppsala
A model of the never accomplished palace at Haga.
See also
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