!!!Jadot de Ville-Issey, Jean Nicolas

Jadot de Ville Issey, Jean Nicolas, b. Luneville (France), Jan. 
22, 1710, d. Ville-Issey (France), June 1, 1761, court architect 
of Duke Franz Stephan of Lorraine, later Emperor Franz I. From 
1750 architect in ordinary to the court of Vienna. In 1753 was 
succeeded by N.  Pacassi, left Vienna and went to Brussels. His 
buildings in Vienna represented a new style which was influenced by 
French architecture and served as a basis for future generations of 
architects.

!Works
Plans for the extension of the Vienna Hofburg (in the 
collection of copper engravings of the National Library, 
"Botschafterstiege"); assembly hall of the Old University (today 
Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1753-1755); Maria Theresia vault in the 
Kapuzinerkirche (1754); Kammergarten and Kronprinzengarten in the park 
of Schoenbrunn.

!Literature
R. Wagner-Rieger, Das Haus der Oe. Akademie der 
Wissenschaften, 1972.


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