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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Paris, Île-de-France, Franceen_US
dc.coverage.temporalrebuilt 1763-1784 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorLemercier, Jacquesen_US
dc.creatorLouis, Victoren_US
dc.creatorMoreau-Desproux, Pierre Louisen_US
dc.date1763-1784en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-09T20:03:40Z
dc.date.available2013-01-09T20:03:40Z
dc.date.issued1763-1784en_US
dc.identifier181997en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2070en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/88615
dc.descriptionSouth garden elevation, the arcade with giant-scaled order; Originally, the Palais Cardinal was the residence of Cardinal Richelieu, who had hired the architect Jacques Lemercier to design it (completed 1629). It was burnt down in 1763, and, apart from the vestige of a façade with high-relief sculpture, nothing of Lemercier's work there survives. Palais-Royal was the principal residence of the House of Orleans. Louis Philippe II (1725-1785), who controlled the Palais-Royal from 1780 onward, expanded and redesigned the complex of buildings (including the Comédie-Française) and the gardens (1781-1784). In 1784, the gardens and surrounding structures of the Palais-Royal opened to the public as a shopping and entertainment complex. Today it houses the Conseil d'État, the Constitutional Council, and the Ministry of Culture. At the rear of the garden are the older buildings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/14/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectOrléans, Louis Philippe, duc d’, 1725-1785en_US
dc.subjectHouse of Orleansen_US
dc.subjectEighteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.titlePalais Royalen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-F-P-PR-A7en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktypepalaceen_US
vra.worktypemixed-use developmenten_US
vra.worktypegardenen_US
dc.contributor.displayJacques Lemercier (French architect, ca.1584-1654); Pierre Louis Moreau-Desproux (French architect, 1727-1793); Victor Louis (French architect, 1731-ca. 1800)en_US


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