The palace of the sun : the Louvre of Louis XIV / Robert W. Berger ; with a chapter on materials and structure written in collaboration with Rowland J. Mainstone.

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Berger, Robert W.

Title & Author:

The palace of the sun : the Louvre of Louis XIV / Robert W. Berger ; with a chapter on materials and structure written in collaboration with Rowland J. Mainstone.

Publication:

Description:

xx, 232 pages, 78 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index.
Regia Solis -- Early Projects for the East Wing -- The Petit Conseil (1667-l668) -- Three Proposals by Claude Perrault -- Building the Louvre -- Materials and Structure -- In the Eye of the Connoisseur -- The Attribution Question -- The Work of the Petit Conseil (1667-1668): A Catalogue Raisonne of the Surviving Drawings and One Medal -- The Couple-Columns Debate -- Claude Perrault and the Piliers de Tutelle, Bordeaux -- The Palmyra-Baalbek Hypothesis -- Colonnade, Peristyle, Galerie, Portique: A Note on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century Nomenclature -- Building the Louvre (1667-1680): Allocations and Payments from the Comptes des batiments du roi -- Documents and Writings on the Louvre (l667-1792).

Summary:

The Palace of the Sun is the first substantial book-length study of the parts of the Louvre built under Louis XIV in the 1660s and 1670s since Louis Hautecoeur's Le Louvre et les Tuileries de Louis XIV (1927). Berger discusses a broad range of topics, from architectural symbolism to structural analysis. All the varied ideas for completing the Louvre from the beginning of the 17th century and forward are surveyed, and the evolution of the final design during the crucial years 1667-68 is analyzed in full detail. The text is supported throughout by a corpus of source documents and writings never before assembled in one place. Here, for the first time, all the known drawings for the Sun King's Louvre are published together, accompanied by a catalogue raisonné. -- From Amazon.

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ISBN:

0271008474 (acid-free paper)
9780271008479 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Ludwig Frankreich, König, XIV.
Louvre (Paris, France)
Louvre (Paris, France) History Sources.
Louvre (Paris, France) History.
Louvre (Paris, France) Histoire Sources.
Louvre (Paris, France) Histoire.
Paris 1. Arrondissement
Classicism in architecture France Paris.
Architecture France Paris History.
Classicisme en architecture France Paris.
Architecture France Paris Histoire.
Architecture
Buildings
Classicism in architecture
Architektur
Barock
Paleizen.
Musée du Louvre.
Architecture France Paris.
Architecture, Modern France Paris History.
Paris (France) Buildings, structures, etc.
France Paris
Louvre

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History

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Location: Library main 86119
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B1799
Status: Available

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