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Architecture

Architectural feature in a landscape

fabrique

In landscape art, fabriques are buildings or constructed features, often picturesque or ruined, included in a composition.

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The Gods Are Athirst

Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Lemma.

In landscape art, fabriques are buildings or constructed features, often picturesque or ruined, included in a composition. Blaise wants Gamelin to sketch them from nature for commercial use. They are not industrial factories; the preceding account of ruins, panels and overdoors establishes the artistic vocabulary.

Places to read

  1. Chapter IX, paragraph 46Frenchesquisser des fabriques d’après nature: Sketch architectural features from nature. Blaise offers the artist work after his rise in judicial status.