Félix Duban

Jacques Félix Duban ( born October 14, 1797 in Paris, † December 20 1870 in Bordeaux) was a French architect and since 1854 a member of the Académie des Beaux -Arts.

Life

In 1823 he won the Prix de Rome and was able to walk with a scholarship for 5 years at the Académie de France à Rome at the Villa Medici in Rome. After his return he succeeded his brother François Debret, the husband of his sister, tasked to reshape the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris. The Academy was located on the grounds of the Musée des Monuments français resolved, a former monastery of the Petits -Augustins. He referred the existing building with a and designed as an early supporter and enabler of historicism, the building in the Italian Renaissance style by.

In the Louvre restored and he designed the Apollo Gallery, the Salle des Sept- fireplaces ( Hall of the seven fireplaces ) and the Salon Carré new. He also initiated in 1840 the restoration and transformation of the hitherto used as barracks castle of Blois and transformed it into the existing state today. Likewise, he was responsible for the restoration of Sainte -Chapelle in Paris also to 1849.