Vaux-le-Vicomte
- Home of Nicholas Fouquet, Superintendent of Finances 1655-61
- in prison for life
- 105 lavish rooms
- 170 acres of gardens
- persian carpets
- crystal chandeliers
- gold clocks
- silver vases
- entertained 6,000 guests
- Architect: Louis Le vau
- garden designer: Andre Le Notre
- painter for the interiors, decorator, and architect: Charles LeBrun
- sculptor: Puget
Palais de Versailles
- original hunting lodge of Louis XIII
- started in 1668- continued for almost a century
- 12 miles southwest of Paris
- housed 10,000 people
- Le Vau designed the central block around the original Louis XIII building
- "A toutes les Glories de la France"
- architect: Louis Le Vau
- painter for the interiors: Charles LeBrun
- sculptor: Puget
- decorative engravings: Jean Berain
- housed 1667 gobelins workshops
- 800 craftsmen
- all decorative furniture for royal residences
- hall of mirrors
- classical architecture and decoration
- classic orders
- rectangular shapes
- regal dimensions 15' ceilings, 11' doors (normal width)
- symmetrical design
- real doors matched with fake doors
- balanced windows with mirrors
- public rooms
- large and dignified
- Galerie des Glaces (hall of mirrors)
- 240' long, 34' wide, 43' high
- barrel vault- Le Brun largest allegorical painting in the world
- windows match mirrors
- enlarge rooms and multiply light
- furniture, chandelier, sconces, planters all solid silver (destroyed 1689)
- interiors
- royal monogram "L" always doubled
- color emphasized architecture
- colored marble pilaster shafts
- paneling usually white, off-white or gray with moldings- carved ornament gilded
- brighter colors in paintings, tapestries, rugs
- furniture against walls
- garden facade
- advancing and receding planes
- floor levels visible on the exterior
- ground level- large round arched windows
- piano nobile- pilasters and columns
- attic (low wall or story extending beyond a cornice or entablature)
- tied to the architecture by Le Notre
- attempt to recreate ancient Roman villas
- reflecting pools project images of the buildings
Furniture
- master of marquetry- Andre Charles Boulle
- chief cabinetmaker
- worked at Versailles where the mirrored walls, the floors of mosaic, the inlaid paneling and the marquetry furniture in the Cabinet du Dauphin (1682-86) were regarded as his most remarkable work
- materials for marquetry were: tortoise shell, metal (brass or silver), ebony
- process
- thin sheet of brass and tortoiseshell-cartoon glued
- design cut with saws
- two sheets separated
- preferred is tortoiseshell ground/brass design
- de premiere partie
- brass ground and tortoiseshell design
- de contra-partie
- brass engraved
- shell colored red or green
- affected by heat and steam
- Andre Charles Boulle
- commode
- cabinet of ebony, metal and tortoise shell
- master of ornamentation
- Louis XIV Chairs
- high backs
- sense of greatness
- wide seat for wide dresses
- bergere-introduced
- enclosed-upholstered french arm chair with an upholstered back and armrests on upholstered frames
- materials from china and japan
- porcelain figures
- vases
- lacquer work
- silk
- screens
Palais de Versailles Grande Trianon
- get away for the king
- located on the Versailles complex
- Peristyle link the two wings
- dedicated to Marie Antoinette
- symmetry, classical ordering, monumental scale, and center focus
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Extra Credit:
This is a tour of the Palace of Versailles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852eroBwDrA
This is a documentary on the Palace of Versailles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3a72XmInag
Peer Review:
Angie: You did a nice job covering the whole powerpoint and I like how you labeled your images so we knew what they were of.
Amanda: You did a very nice job of concisely covering all of the information about the Baroque style. I also enjoyed your current application images.
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