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François Mansart
(13th Jan, 1598 - 23rd Sep, 1666)
Projet pour la façade de l'église des Feuillants, rue Saint-Honoré, à Paris
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michèle Bellot
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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About the artwork
Title:
Projet pour la façade de l'église des Feuillants, rue Saint-Honoré, à Paris
Periods:
17th century
modern age
Techniques:
brown ink
pen (drawing)
black ink
stylus (drawing)
Dimensions:
441 x 271
Inventory number:
RF51758-recto
Detail:
Vers 1623
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
François Mansart
Also known as:
Francois Mansart
Born:
13th Jan, 1598
Dead:
23rd Sep, 1666
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
François Mansart
(13 January 1598 – 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The
Encyclopædia Britannica
cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance". Mansart, as he is generally known, made extensive use of a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof punctuated with windows on the steeper lower slope, creating…
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