Author: BAST Liévin Armand Marie de - SUYS F.T. (architecte ) - [ ] Charles Van Hulthem ( dedicatee ) :
Title: Projet d'un palais pour la Société Royale des Beaux-Arts et de Littérature à Gand ; qui remporta le Grand Prix d'Architecture au concours de 1820 , de L'Académie Royale de ladite ville, composé par T.F. Suys , Architecte...
Description: .: Gand ( Gent ), chez P.F. De Goesin-Verhaeghe, imprimeur de l'Université, 1821, in-8°, 24 cm, 16 pp + 9 engraved plates ( designed by Suys, engraved by C. Normand ). Bound in 19th century half leather, boards covered with marbled paper. Spine with some use, interior with sparse foxing spots. Still a good copy. Rare description of a primed architectural project designed by the Flemish architect Tieleman ( Tylman - Tilman ) Franciscus Suys ( Oostende 1783 - Brugge 1861) for the construction of an art academy. He was chief architect at the court of king Willem I during his reign over the United Netherlands (1815-1830) and participated at important neoclassical transformations in Brussels (Egmont Palace, Royal Palace, Warande park, Coudenberg Church, Botanical Gardens...). During his stay in Rome he made a description with drawings of the Palazzo Massimi in Rome. .

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