A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . lilvSlCXS TmK 1 KIIMIIIAI, , II;AN MAKil (scr p. 151; iff I. TO V\v\. I>. 155] DANIEL MAROT, JEAN LE PAUTRE 155 designing gardens for Dutch noblemen, and he here produced designsof all sorts in immense quantities, perspectives for staircases and thewalls of courtyards, then much in fashion in France, ceilings in theheavy manner of Le Brun and in the lighter fashion of Delamare,Mausoleums or mozoles, as he calls them, monuments, triumphalarches, sculpture, chimney pieces, ch
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . lilvSlCXS TmK 1 KIIMIIIAI, , II;AN MAKil (scr p. 151; iff I. TO V\v\. I>. 155] DANIEL MAROT, JEAN LE PAUTRE 155 designing gardens for Dutch noblemen, and he here produced designsof all sorts in immense quantities, perspectives for staircases and thewalls of courtyards, then much in fashion in France, ceilings in theheavy manner of Le Brun and in the lighter fashion of Delamare,Mausoleums or mozoles, as he calls them, monuments, triumphalarches, sculpture, chimney pieces, chairs, tables, settees, embroidery,tapestries, state bedsteads, clocks, snuff-boxes, gardens, parterres,trellis work, every conceivable detail, in short, of the rich mans houseof the time. A collection of 222 plates, entitled Qiuvres du Marot, Architecte de Guillaume III. Roi de la Grand Bretagne,was published at the Hague in 1703. The engravings are unequal,some are coarse and almost clumsy, others, such, for example, as hisdesigns for arabesques and certain of his ceilings, are of exqui
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