Place Royale, Dijon
Mansart, Jules Hardouin
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Alternative Title
Place de la Libération, Dijon
Date
1685-1701Description
Detail, window and stonework; In 1685 Hardouin Mansart designed the façade for the Palais des Etats, Dijon, with a pediment carried on Doric columns, together with the Place Royale in front of it; this was a simple screen of rusticated arches laid out on a semicircular plan. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/15/2010)
Subject
architecture, City planning, city government, Seventeenth century
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