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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Vaux-le-Vicomte, Château de, Île-de-France, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1656-1661 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorLe Nôtre, Andréen_US
dc.date1656-1661en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-10T19:40:13Z
dc.date.available2013-05-10T19:40:13Z
dc.date.issued1656-1661en_US
dc.identifier216320en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 292en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/123949
dc.descriptionView over the formal gardens, from the Chateau, looking south, depicting the lake and canal at the south terminus; The gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte were the first great work of André Le Nôtre. One of the objects of his extensive layout was to present a number of 'pictures' of the house. In his own plan of the gardens he showed the avenue running north from the entrance gates to a rond-point, from which only the central block of the château is visible. This avenue is intersected by another at exactly the point at which not only the château but also its flanking archways are included in the picture. The underlying principles of the layout were that the formality of the château required a corresponding formality in its immediate surroundings and that the landscape should be the creation of human reason, making use of all that perspective, proportion and a subtle touch of optical illusion could confer. Le Nôtre built his design along a central axis 800 m long from the windows of the Salon to the once-gilded colossal copy of the Farnese Hercules by Michel Anguier, which marks the horizon to the south. Anguier was the major provider of outdoor sculpture at Vaux-le-Vicomte. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/8/2008)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectlandscapesen_US
dc.subjectplantsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectGardensen_US
dc.subjectLouis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715en_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.subjectSeventeenth centuryen_US
dc.titleChâteau de Vaux le Vicomte: Gardensen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-F-CVV-3-A5en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniquegardening carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktypepark (recreation area)en_US
vra.worktypegardenen_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayAndré Le Nôtre (French landscape architect, 1613-1700)en_US


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