Roland Fréart de Chambray

Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray (13 July 1606 – 11 December 1676) 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'' (1662), appeared at a time when French architects were struggling to apply a new sense of discipline and order to the practice of building. Provided by Wikipedia