The Louvre Colonnade is the easternmost façade of the Palais du Louvre in Paris.
It has been celebrated as the foremost masterpiece of French Architectural Classicism since its construction, mostly between 1667 and 1674. The design, dominated by two loggias with trabeated colonnades of coupled giant columns, was created by a committee of three, the Petit Conseil, consisting of Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault. Louis Le Vau's brother, François Le Vau, also contributed. Cast in a restrained classicizing baroque manner, it interprets rules laid down by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, whose works Perrault translated into French (1673).[1] Its flat-roofline design, previously associated with Italy and unprecedented in France, was immensely influential.[2]
^Neumann 2013, pp. 296–297.
^Rochelle Ziskin (March 1994), "The Place de Nos Conquêtes and the Unraveling of the Myth of Louis XIV", The Art Bulletin, 76:1 (1), Taylor & Francis: 152, doi:10.2307/3046007, JSTOR 3046007
The LouvreColonnade is the easternmost façade of the Palais du Louvre in Paris. It has been celebrated as the foremost masterpiece of French Architectural...
the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre. Colonnades (formerly as colonade) have been built since ancient times and interpretations...
The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank...
façade on the north. Proposed Baroque east façade of Louvre by Gian Lorenzo Bernini LouvreColonnade The most important showcase of the French Classicism...
The Louvre (English: /ˈluːv(rə)/ LOOV(-rə)), or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ), is a national art museum in Paris, France...
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property of the French Republic. It has normally been on display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797. The painting's global fame and popularity partly stem...
Capra "La Rotonda" (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy) Baroque porticos of the LouvreColonnade (Paris) Louis XVI portico of the Théâtre de la reine, part of the Petit...
the most expansive picture in the paintings collection of the Musée du Louvre. At Venice, on 6 June 1562, the Black Monks of the Order of Saint Benedict...
dozen statues from the Mithraeum were donated by Edmond Durighello to the Louvre, where they remain on display today. They have been catalogued in the Corpus...
Mesopotamian scribes for over a millennium. The stele now resides in the Louvre Museum. The top of the stele features an image in relief of Hammurabi with...
French Revolution of 1789. Liberty Leading the People is exhibited in the Louvre in Paris. By the time Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People, he was...
Louvre in Paris. The other, which was restored between 2008 and 2010, hangs in the National Gallery, London. The works are often known as the Louvre Virgin...
rediscovered in 1820 on the island of Milos, Greece, and has been displayed at the Louvre Museum since 1821. Since the statue's discovery, it has become one of the...
Hermaphrodite" was later sold to the occupying French and was moved to The Louvre, where it is on display. The Sleeping Hermaphrodite has been described as...
Treaty of Tolentino and was displayed with other Italian works of art in the Louvre Museum until 1816 when it was returned to Rome. The statue serves both as...
Bernini's plans were eventually shelved in favour of the elegant LouvreColonnade designed by three Frenchmen: Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude...
uncovered parts of the Medieval Louvre in 1866 and 1882 and revealed unfinished 17th-century works in front of the Colonnade in 1964. The excavations were...
degree, in the Late Baroque architecture in Paris, such as in the LouvreColonnade. This shift was even visible in Rome at the redesigned façade for Archbasilica...
influential, in the Louvre specifically as they were copied by generations of architects including those of the LouvreColonnade, and in French classical...
attention from its first showing and was then exhibited in London. The Louvre acquired it soon after the artist's death at age 32. The painting's influence...
basement, a scheme that was influenced by the severe design of the LouvreColonnade. The interior contains a grand entrance hall with a high barrel vaulted...
Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and 1785 and now on display in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and...
original, rather than Roman copies. Winged Victory has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884. Greece is...
Brun, and Claude Perrault. Vaux le Vicomte by Louis Le Vau (1658) The LouvreColonnade by Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, and Claude Perrault (1667–1678) The...
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