Guillaume Cammas
High altar of Saint Peter of the Carthusian monastery in Toulouse – designed by Guillaume Cammas
Guillaume Cammas (1688–1777) was a French painter and architect.
Life[]
Cammas was born in Aignes, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées. He studied under the painter Antoine Rivalz, and designed the façade of the Capitole de Toulouse, built between 1750 and 1759. He was one of the founders of , where he taught. His son François-Lambert Cammas designed the transept of the .
References[]
- (in French) MESURET, Robert,Les expositions de l'Académie Royale de Toulouse de 1751 à 1791, Espie, Paris, 1972.
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- 1688 births
- 1777 deaths
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 18th-century French architects