A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . - o Ui ?HI ?p*:T r t . - H [I, PP. 60, 61 Pl. VII. > JH Q < H PS ouw«o X opo a: XH Z o HU w 1. in FACE r. 6i] LOUIS LE VAU 6i work of Le Vau, designed after 1660. He was fond of these greatungainly pavilions, enclosing either a central salon or a staircase. Headded one to the old chateau of Meudon, enclosing a central staircase,probably for Colbert, soon after 1661; ^ and about that date he appearsto have also designed for Colbert a large plain house in the RueNeuve des Petits Champs in whi
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . - o Ui ?HI ?p*:T r t . - H [I, PP. 60, 61 Pl. VII. > JH Q < H PS ouw«o X opo a: XH Z o HU w 1. in FACE r. 6i] LOUIS LE VAU 6i work of Le Vau, designed after 1660. He was fond of these greatungainly pavilions, enclosing either a central salon or a staircase. Headded one to the old chateau of Meudon, enclosing a central staircase,probably for Colbert, soon after 1661; ^ and about that date he appearsto have also designed for Colbert a large plain house in the RueNeuve des Petits Champs in which he dispensed with the orders,using plain rusticated arcades and panels in the upper storey in themanner of Le Muet. Marot gives also a birds-eye view of a housebuilt from the designs of Le Vau for the President Tambonneau in theFaubourg S. Germain. Here he used orders above orders for thecentral frontispiece to the Court, and one would hardly think the twodesigns were by the same man. Le Vau had a typical plan for hiscountry houses, with their central pavilion dominating and often over-powering the whole design, but apart from this his arc
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