Roland Fréart de Chambray (died 1676)

Roland Fréart de Chambray

French writer, collector, and theorist

Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne (1650) and Idée de la perfection de la peinture…