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.
Rome (1625–1628); Paris (1629–1632); Rome (1632–1638); Paris (1638–1640); Rome (1640–1643); Paris (1643–1666); Rome (1666–1673); Paris (1673–1675); Rome (1675–1689)