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Legeay [Le Geay], Jean-Laurent
(b Paris, c. 1710; d after 1786). French architect, draughtsman and teacher. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and won the Prix de Rome in 1732. His residence in Rome (1737–42) coincided with the arrival from Venice (1740) of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who was considerably influenced by Legeay’s dramatic engravings of the monuments of Roman antiquity. Legeay worked with Piranesi and other engravers on illustrations for guide books on Rome, including the Varie vedute di Roma antica e moderna (1745) by Fausto Amidei, and he was an important figure in the cross-currents of influence and ideas between Piranesi and the French scholars in Rome.
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