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The Louvre and Versailles : the evolution of the proto-typical palace in the age of absolutism /

This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescot's designs for expanding the former in the mid-16th century to the successive grands projects for the transformation of the latter over the course of the 18th century. Detailed architectural anal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tadgell, Christopher, 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:
Louvre (Paris, France)
Château de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Symbolism in architecture > France > Paris.
France > Kings and rulers > Art patronage.
Paris (France) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • THE LOUVRE FROM ROUND TOWER TO SQUARE COURT OVER HALF A MILLENNIUM
  • 1. Inception
  • 1.1. Apogee of the Valols
  • Francois 1 and his predecessors abroad
  • Francine Renaissance
  • Introduction of Philibert de I'Orme and Pierre Lescot
  • Excursion To Anet
  • 1.2. To the palace with Lescot
  • The initiative of Francois I revised for Henri II
  • The constitution of Lescot's revisions
  • Morphology and symbolism
  • Advent Ceremonial
  • Triumph And The Fruits Of Peace
  • 1.3. Valois valediction
  • West to the Tuileries and on to Charleval
  • Late works and imported etiquette
  • The Late Valois And Early Hispano-Burgundians
  • Notes
  • 2. Expansion
  • 2.1. Introduction: Advent of the Bourbons
  • Louis XIII and Richelieu
  • Furthering late-Valois projects
  • Post-Mannerism
  • Introduction of Jacques Lemercier
  • 2.2. Back to the palace with Lemercier: expansion eclipsed
  • Digression To Richelieu
  • Introduction of Francois Mansart
  • Excursion To Blois
  • 2.3. Louis XIV and Mazarin
  • Centralized power checked and reasserted
  • Fruits of victory abroad
  • Mazarine aesthetics
  • Flight Into Heaven: Trompe-L'oeil In Mazarin's Circle
  • Modern style and ancient ritual in the Louvre
  • Etiquette En Enfilade
  • Introduction of Louis Le Vau
  • Excursion To Vaux-Le-Vicomte
  • 2.4. Back to the palace with Le Vau: expansion regained
  • Notes
  • 3. Resolution
  • 3.1. Self-assertive king and minister
  • 3.2. Colbert and the palace
  • Le Vau checked
  • The contention of Francois Mansart
  • Mansart's Louvre: Directing The Flow Of Unstemmed Invention
  • International aspiration for the seat of France
  • Excursion To Rome For Lessons In Ordonnance
  • After Bernini: design by committee
  • The Perraults: claim and counter-claim
  • 3.3. Amplification
  • Implications of doubling the south wing
  • Propriety In Proportion
  • 3.4. Prototype achieved
  • Practicality and propriety
  • Notes
  • VERSAILLES TRANSFORMATIONS OF A HUNTING LODGE ACROSS TWO REIGNS
  • 1. Inception And Development For Louis XIV
  • Prelude: accession to the He enchantee
  • Apollonian Allegory And The Sun King's Ego
  • 1.1. The pursuit of gloire
  • Aggression stalled
  • 1.2. The palace of Le Vau and Le Brun: envelopment
  • Style
  • French precedents for the enveloppe
  • Forecourt extensions and the great staircase
  • Flights Of Grandeur
  • The grand enfilade
  • The garden
  • To The Bosquet
  • 1.3. Pursuit of gloire renewed
  • Aggregation achieved
  • 1.4. The palace of Le Brun and Hardouin-Mansart: expansion
  • Baroque-Classicism: the Style Louis xiv
  • The galerie des Glaces and its dependencies
  • Old fronts revised and new wings projected
  • Back To The Bosquet
  • 1.5. Marly 2.04
  • 1.6. After Colbert: gloire sullied
  • The seat of sovereignty
  • The advance of Gallicanism
  • The repression of Protestantism
  • Attrition at arms
  • 1.7. Retreat from magniloquence
  • The appartement du roi
  • To Trianon
  • 1.8. Twilight of gloire
  • 1.9. The final phase of the old king's palace building
  • Advent of Rococo
  • The appartement du roi extended
  • Towards the future in the context of the past
  • Notes
  • 2. Reformation And Refinement For Louis XV
  • 2.1. From profligate regency to personal rule
  • Rehabilitation of the state and successful war
  • Succession Wars
  • Radical alliances and disastrous war
  • Revenge Wars
  • Abortive reform
  • 2.2. Sophisticated planning and exotic decoration
  • Advance Into The `s tyle Moderne'
  • Theory And Modern Practice
  • Back to the palace
  • Advance to commodite
  • Introducing Ange-Jacques Gabriel
  • 2.3. Reviewed theory and reformed practice
  • Jacques-Francois Blondel And Noble Simplicitf
  • Modified gravitas
  • 2.4. Projects for the palace
  • The petit projet of 1742
  • The grand projet of 1743 and its revision in 1749
  • The court Opera
  • Retreat into the interior
  • 2.5. Return to the Louvre
  • 2.6. Towards the definitive grand projet
  • Bernini Translated To Versailles
  • 2.7. Diversion to Trianon again
  • Apotheosis Of Domesticity
  • 2.8. Back to the palace
  • The Opera reprieved
  • Late interiors
  • 2.9. Resolution of the grand projet
  • Fin de regne
  • Notes
  • French royal architects diverted
  • To Stockholm with Tessin
  • Emulation At Large: The Ideal
  • Imperial rivalry
  • Beyond the imperial capital
  • Munich and Schleifsheim
  • The Apogee Of Rococo In Munich
  • Wurzburg
  • From Berlin to Potsdam
  • Petersburg and Peterhof
  • From Madrid to Naples
  • Caserta
  • Queluz
  • Blenheim
  • Back to Bavaria beyond Blenheim
  • Notes.