Étienne Martellange
Architect
Died when: 71 years 285 days (861 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Étienne Martellange (22 December 1569 – 3 October 1641) was a French Jesuit architect and draftsman.He travelled widely in France as an architect for the Jesuit order and designed more than 25 buildings, mostly schools and their associated chapels or churches.
His buildings reflect the Baroque style of the Counter-Reformation and include the Chapelle de la Trinité in Lyon and the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis in Paris.
In the course of his travels he made almost 200 detailed pen drawings depicting views of towns, buildings and monuments.These pictures have survived and provide an important historical record of French towns in the first third of the 17th century.
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