Show simple item record

dc.coverage.spatialSite: Paris, Île-de-France, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1645-1667 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMansart, Françoisen_US
dc.creatorLemercier, Jacquesen_US
dc.date1645-1667en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-22T18:02:56Z
dc.date.available2013-02-22T18:02:56Z
dc.date.issued1645-1667en_US
dc.identifier194471en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1452en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/101979
dc.descriptionClose view of the drum and dome; In 1645 Mansart was appointed by the queen, Anne of Austria, to add a church and palace to the convent of the Val-de-Grâce, which she frequently visited on retreat. For this project Mansart devised a highly imaginative scheme based on the Escorial in Spain, where Anne had spent her youth. His design for the church was original in many respects, with bell-towers flanking the nave and a projecting single-storey entrance portico, more reminiscent of his château frontispieces than of a conventional church front. The portico was possibly influenced by that on the north side of Jacques Le Mercier's church of the Sorbonne (1635-1648). The plan of the church of the Val-de-Grâce is characterized by a dominant central domed space at the crossing, surrounded by three equal apses for the choir and transepts, a layout reminiscent of that adopted by Andrea Palladio for Il Redentore (1576-1580), Venice, where there is a similar play on circular forms. The whole of the domed space is located in a square block that projects slightly beyond the walls of the nave. After work on the scheme had proceeded for a year, Mansart was dismissed. Nevertheless, although the palace was never built, the church itself was begun under his direction, and he was responsible for the walls of the nave, with their giant Corinthian pilasters, up to the entablature, and for the lower storey of the façade. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/16/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectreligiousen_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titleVal-de-Grâceen_US
dc.title.alternativeChurch of Val-de-Grâceen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-F-P-VG-A7en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypechurchen_US
dc.contributor.displayFrançois Mansart (French architect, ca. 1598-1666); Jacques Lemercier (French architect, ca.1584-1654)en_US


Files in this item

531.4Kb
JPEG image
2.309Mb
JPEG image
20.87Kb
JPEG image

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record