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	Louis Le Vau Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The French architect Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) was one of the creators of the French classical style, which dominated the academic architecture of the 17th century.
		Louis Le Vau was born in Paris, the son of a master mason of the same name.
		Le Vau collaborated closely at Vaux with the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun and the landscape architect André Le Nôtre.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-le-vau (590 words)

	Ballon, Hilary
		Le Vau was under tremendous pressure as a result of the demands put on him for the Collège (and after rejection of his project for the Louvre) by an authoritarian Colbert who was uninformed, indeed insecure about his judgment on matters of style.
		Le Vau received a pension of 6,000 livres as first architect, and he was paid only 1,000 livres for the plans for the Collège, a paltry sum for such a work.
		Le Vau's library is that a of a quite well-educated person for whom architecture was a general element along with lay and profane classics, architecture and mathematics treatises, history (Davila), and recent literary works by Madeline Scudéry, Chapelain and La Calprenède.
	www.ranumspanat.com /ballon.html (1147 words)

	Louis Le Vau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was responsible, with André Le Nôtre and Charles Le Brun, for the redesign of the château of Vaux-le-Vicomte.
		Le Vau also designed the Château de Vincennes, the Château du Raincy, the Collège des Quatre-Nations (now housing the Institut de France), the church of St.
		Sulpice, and Hôtel Lambert, on the Île Saint-Louis, Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Le_Vau (145 words)

	Architecture Louis Le Vau
		Louis Le Vau was a French architect, and one of the principal designers of the Palace of Versailles.
		Louis XIV, who ascended the French throne as a boy in 1643, began building work at Versailles in 1661, with Louis Le Vau as principal architect.
		Under Louis XVI plans were made to extend the palace further and an architectural competition for a new master plan was held in 1783.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-ArchitectureLeVau.htm (671 words)

	H-France Reviews
		Le Vau is important, she argues, because he occupied a key place in the transition of French architectural style, from one shaped by the Renaissance and influenced by the Italianate baroque to that of the more severe classical style of the Louvre and Versailles.
		Le Vau never traveled to Italy; he learned elements of the classical tradition from his professional books, which Le Vau used not to absorb the canons of classical architecture but as a source of ideas.
		She also admits that Le Vau continued as royal architect after the College and was employed at the early construction of Versailles until his death in 1670.
	www.h-france.net /vol2reviews/baxter.html (2083 words)

	Louis Le Vau Summary
		Born into a family of architects and builders, Le Vau achieved an impressive reputation as a designer of private estates and was famous for his opulent interior designs and majestic proportions.
		Le Vau was also commissioned to design part of the Louvre in Paris.
		Louis Le Vau (1612 – October 11 1670) was a French architect who worked for Louis XIV of France.
	www.bookrags.com /Louis_Le_Vau (776 words)

	Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
		Ignoring all warnings, he entertained Louis XIV at a spectacular celebration at Vaux-le-Vicomte on August 17 1661, a lavish event for which Molière had written a new comedy, "Les Fâcheux"; but only three weeks later he was arrested for enriching himself from his office and condemned to imprisonment for life, and Vaux-le-Vicomte was confiscated.
		He also took over Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre, who created for him at Versailles the palace of palaces, the splendid center and symbol of absolutist power.
		Le Nôtre's park is a masterpiece of French landscape gardening: the strict regularity of its plan, with main, transverse and diagonal axes, is relieved by elaborate fountains, imposing sculptural groups and over-lifesize statues (e.g.
	www.planetware.com /paris/vaux-le-vicomte-f-p-vv.htm (409 words)

	Louis Le Vau - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Le Vau, Louis, 1612-70, French architect, involved in most of the important building projects for Louis XIV.
		In 1655, Le Vau succeeded Jacques Lemercier as architect for the Louvre, on which he collaborated with Claude Perrault.
		Le sujet en souffrance dans l'oeuvre de Louis-Rene des Forets: Ainsi nous ne vivons jamais, mais nous esperons de vivre -- Pascal, Pensees.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lev1au-l1o.html (307 words)

	LOUIS XIV AND THE VERSAILLES PALACE
		In 1669, the king decided to enlarge the castle, and Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) began the monumental task of transforming a hunting lodge into Europe's premiere palace.
		Starting from the plans of Le Vau, he built the Hall of Mirrors, Orangerie, Grand Trianon and the north and south wings.
		Louis was anxious to protect the himself from any outbursts on the part of the Parisian mob and to distract the nobility from affairs of state.
	staff.gps.edu /mines/louis_xiv_and_the_versailles_pal.htm (852 words)

	History of Art: Baroque and Rococo
		The courtyard of the Hotel Lambert (1640-44), built by Louis Le Vau on the He Saint-Louis for Nicolas Lambert, was surrounded by a continuous Doric entablature, giving a sense of continuity to the space, reinforced by the gently curved concave corners at both ''ends" of the facade.
		Louis Le Vau was responsible for the project and designed the central section of the new palace, the two wings forming the courtyard, and the garden facade.
		Andre Le Notre, in charge of the king's parks and gardens after 1662 and the inventor of the "French garden", drew on the Italian tradition of symmetry for his network of axial pathways.
	www.all-art.org /history252-1.html (2025 words)

	History of Versailles
		Les Plaisirs de l'Ile Enchantée (The Pleasures of the Enchanted Isle) in May 1664 and the Grand Divertissement (The Grand Royal Entertainment) on July 18th, 1668 dazzled all who experienced them and made Versailles known throughout Europe.
		Meanwhile, Louis XIV cherished thoughts of extending the Château which had already become too small; he therefore asked Le Vau to draw up plans.
		After some hesitation Louis XIV adopted a compromise solution: the existing Château would not be torn down but surrounded on three sides by a stone building of greater height and covered with a flat roof.
	www.blakeneymanor.com /versailles.html (780 words)

	versailles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Louis XIII built a hunting lodge at the village outside Paris in 1624.
		It was meant to be a home for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who boasted of himself, "I am the state." The men in charge of the project were Louis Le Vau, architect; Charles Le Brun, painter and decorator; and Andre Le Notre, landscape architect.
		Starting with Le Vau's plans, Hardouin-Mansart added a second story and built the magnificent Hall of Mirrors and the north and south wings.
	www.tkurtz.net /versailles.htm (251 words)

	Construction
		From 1668 to 1670 he built the 'envelope', which Saint-Simon severely criticized for contrasting with the old chateau: 'the beautiful and the ugly, the vast and the restricted, were stitched together'.
		Indeed, Le Vau's 'envelope' entailed wrapping the old chateau in a second building whose uniformly white stone facades served as a fine garden setting.
		Toward the end of the reign of Louis XV, around 1770, Jacques-Ange Gabriel built the Opera and began reworking all the facades on the chateau's town side.
	www.chateauversailles.fr /en/110_Construction.php (418 words)

	Nicolas Fouquet & Vaux-le-Vicomte
		Furthermore, at the outskirts of the city, the châteaux of Saint-Sepulchre and Le Raincy, and renovated the château de Meudon.
		Le Brun was a decorator then in the fullest and most prestigious sense of the word.
		Louis XIV resolved on this night, with the assistance of those same artists whom Fouquet had selected for Vaux, to create residences of still greater splendour.
	www.kipar.org /historical-resources/fouquet-vaux1.html (1268 words)

	Ballon, H.: Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge.
		She tracks the design and construction of the Collège on the basis of splendid drawings, fully illustrated here, integrating into this account previously unknown dimensions of Le Vau's creative personality, his financial entanglements, and his feuds with government leaders.
		Le Vau responded with an ambitious architectural tribute intended to launch the development of Paris in a new artistic direction.
		Her examination of the elements informing Le Vau's personal style and his relationship with Colbert brings into sharper focus the phenomenon of royal patronage and opens a new perspective on the development of French classicism at a turning point in Parisian architectural history.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/6712.html (643 words)

	Ile St. Louis
		Today, the Île Saint-Louis is one island, connected to the "mainland" and the Ile de la Cité by five bridges, but much earlier in the history of Paris it was comprised of two separate islands.
		Île Saint-Louis is probably one of the prettiest neighborhoods in Paris, with its elegant 17th century townhouses lining the quais next to the Seine.
		This classic 17th century church was designed by François Le Vau, brother of Louis Le Vau, of the aforementioned Vaux-le-Vicomte fame not to mention Versailles and the Louvre.
	www.pariswoman.com /paris/by_areas/ile_st_louis1.htm (2201 words)

	Louis Le Vau - Wikipédia
		Louis Le Vau (il conviendrait d'orthographier son nom Le Veau, comme celui de son père) est un architecte français né à Paris en 1612 et mort dans cette même ville en 1670.
		Le jeune Louis collabore avec son père en lui fournissant dessins et devis, ce qui lui permet de commencer dès cette année-là sa carrière d'architecte en s'intégrant au chantier de l'île Saint-Louis, s'attachant à développer celle-ci pour qu'elle devienne une région habitée.
		En faisant son travail à Vaux-le-Vicomte, le Vau a collaboré avec Charles le Brun, le peintre et le décorateur, et André le Notre, qui a dessiné les jardins.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Le_Vau (705 words)

	Vaux-le-Vicomte - History of the castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Louis Le Vau was the architect, Charles Le Brun was the interior decorator and André Le Nôtre was the landscape gardener.
		In the main rooms, the decorations by Charles Le Brun may be seen, together with remarkable furniture which was brought back by the Sommier family.
		The destinies of Nicolas Fouquet and the subsequent owners of the château are described during the tour.
	www.tourisme77.com /uk/decouvrir/chateau-de-vaux-le-vicomte.asp (322 words)

	Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte, France
		This achievement was conceived through the collaboration of three men of genius whom Fouquet had chosen for the task: the architect Louis Le Vau (1612-1670), the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun (1619-1690), and the landscape gardener André Le Nôtre (1613-1700).
		Set within a huge green space which, from the entrance gate to the furthest statue of Hercules, extends in length to around 5000 feet (1500 meters) and to a sixth of this in width, the château dominates from whatever distance it is seen.
		The vast area, Le Nôtre's first masterpiece, is divided up into a sequence of terraces, forming an orderly composition of sculpted box gardens patterned after motifs from Turkish carpets, bordered flower beds, shrubberies, grottos, lawns, lakes and fountains.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Castles/Vaux-le-Vicomte2.shtml (497 words)

	Vau-le-Vicomte
		The Chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte was built in 1658-61 for Nicholas Fouquet, the finance minister of Louis XIV.
		The architects were Louis LeVau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart; the gardens were designed by André LeNôtre.
		Fouquet was jailed shortly after the opening celebrations of the chateau, and Louis XIV afterwards employed the designers for his palace at Versailles.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/vaux_vicomte.html (55 words)

	Louis Le Vau Online
		Louis le Vau - Les débuts d'un architecte parisien
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		All images and text on this Louis Le Vau page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/le_vau_louis.html (132 words)

	AllRefer.com - Louis Le Vau (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Louis Le Vau[lwE lu vO] Pronunciation Key, 1612–70, French architect, involved in most of the important building projects for Louis XIV.
		He settled on the Ile Saint-Louis, where he built his own house and the HOtels Lambert and Lauzun.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Louis Le Vau
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LeVau-Lo.html (235 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Le Brun, Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For Louis XIV and his chief minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert he executed his greatest work, the royal palace of Versailles: an almost perfect ensemble of architecture, decoration and landscape.
		After Colbert’s death in 1683, he was no longer able to count on prestigious commissions and, apart from finishing the decoration of Versailles, he concentrated on smaller-scale religious painting.
		Le Vau: (1) Louis Le Vau, §3: Mature work, 1654–63
	www.artnet.com /library/04/0498/T049857.asp (565 words)

	Institut de France (Louis Le Vau) - Architecture of Paris, France
		Institut de France (Louis Le Vau) - Architecture of Paris, France
		Initialement construit comme université pour des étudiants des états conquis, le bâtiment a inclus une bibliothèque publique et une chapelle.
		Le bâtiment avec son décor baroque et conception symétrique forte a à son centre la chapelle avec une entrée et un dôme grands.
	france.archiseek.com /paris/institut_de_france.html (127 words)

	AH 202 (Geiger): Baroque of the Seventeenth Century: France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Louis Le Nain, Family of Country People, c.
		The Louvre, Paris, east facade, 1667-70, by Claude Perrault, Louis Le Vau, and Charles Le Brun
		Palace of Versailles, garden facade, 1669-85, by Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart,
	www.wisc.edu /arth/ah202/glg/wk05_lec02b.html (124 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Orbay, François d’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He probably received his early training in architecture from his father, a master mason and entrepreneur.
		In the late 1650s he assisted Louis Le Vau (see LE VAU, (1))at the Château de Vincennes and was sent by Le Vau to Rome in 1660 to study.
		While there, d’Orbay produced an ambitious design (not executed) for outdoor stairs and flanking buildings for the front of Trinità dei Monti, and this Mannerist design reveals the influence of François Le Vau.
	www.artnet.com /library/06/0637/T063707.asp (260 words)

	Baroque in Italy
		Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault, East facade of the Louvre, ca.
		Versailles: Palace and gardens: garden facade, 1669-85 begun by Louis le Vau (1612-70), completed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708); park, 1661-68 by Andre le Notre; Hall of Mirrors (Gallerie des Glaces), c.
		1680 by Hardouin-Mansart and le Brun; whole complex 1660s--18th c.
	vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu /ftoker/0040/baroque.html (144 words)

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