Louis Le Vau (French pronunciation:[lwiləvo]; 1612 – 11 October 1670) was a French Baroque architect, who worked for Louis XIV of France.[1] He was an architect that helped develop the French Classical style in the 17th century.[2]
^Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Louis Levau" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^Encyclopedia of World Biography, "Louis Le Vau", vol. 9, pp. 360-361.
LouisLeVau (French pronunciation: [lwi lə vo]; 1612 – 11 October 1670) was a French Baroque architect, who worked for Louis XIV of France. He was an...
comprising LouisLeVau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. Vaux le Vicomte by LouisLeVau (1658) The Louvre Colonnade by LouisLeVau, Charles Le Brun...
d'Anne d'Autriche. In 1659, Louis XIV instigated a new phase of construction under LeVau and painter Charles Le Brun. LeVau oversaw the remodeling and...
Brosse (1615–1620) Vaux-le-Vicomte near Paris, by LouisLeVau and André Le Nôtre, (1656-1661) In 1665, the chief minister of Louis XIV, Jean Colbert, invited...
of the grand new halls of the Palace of Versailles designed by Louis Le Vau and then by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. The characteristics of the first style...
Palace, Paris, by LouisLeVau and Charles Le Brun, after 1661 East front of the Louvre Palace, Paris, by Claude Perrault and LouisLeVau, 1665–1680 Chapel...
French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included LouisLeVau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner...
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louisle Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
of the Grand Canal. Its construction was entrusted to the architect LouisLeVau, who began work in 1663. Abandoned during the French Revolution, it fell...
the outskirts of Versailles. In 1670, he commissioned the architect LouisLeVau to design a porcelain pavilion (Trianon de porcelaine) to be built there...
on a door in the Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, Paris, by LouisLeVau and Charles Le Brun, after 1661 Rococo bedroom from the Ca' Sagredo in Venice...
Vaux-le-Vicomte. Louis XIV was impressed by the château and its gardens, which were the work of LouisLeVau, the court architect since 1654, André Le Nôtre...
château at Vaux-le-Vicomte, Louis XIV turned his attention to Versailles. With the aid of Fouquet's architect LouisLeVau, painter Charles Le Brun, and landscape...
crown – Louis, after the confiscation of Fouquet's estate, employed the talents of LeVau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun, who all had worked on Vaux-le-Vicomte...
1820), was in part a political commentary on a recent event. Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863), was considered scandalous not because of the...
the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre Palace, Paris, by LouisLeVau and Charles Le Brun, after 1661 Baroque pair of cornucopias on the garden façade...
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