. A short history of art . THE PANTHEOX, PAKIS A great example of the classic revival of the reign of Louis XV, Note the imposing portico and the peristyle arounu the drum of the 17th and 18th century ARCHITECTURE 453 Fontainebleau, and the long gallery of the Louvre, facingon the river, which connected the Louvre proper with theTuileries. The latter work was completed during the regencyof Louis XIII. by the Queen Mother, whose most con-spicuous achievement was the building of the Palace of theLuxembourg and the laying out of its gardens. Its architectwas Salomon de Brosse. With the dea
. A short history of art . THE PANTHEOX, PAKIS A great example of the classic revival of the reign of Louis XV, Note the imposing portico and the peristyle arounu the drum of the 17th and 18th century ARCHITECTURE 453 Fontainebleau, and the long gallery of the Louvre, facingon the river, which connected the Louvre proper with theTuileries. The latter work was completed during the regencyof Louis XIII. by the Queen Mother, whose most con-spicuous achievement was the building of the Palace of theLuxembourg and the laying out of its gardens. Its architectwas Salomon de Brosse. With the death of Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661, began theindependent government of Louis XIV., under whom flour-ished the style which corresponds to the Palladian in , although French architecture of the period inclined tothe colossal and pretentious, French propriety of tasteavoided the extravagances of Bernini. The great work ofthis period is the Palace of Versailles. No part of it isof very great importance architecturally, but its enormoussize and its skilful interior disposition, together with itsstately gardens, made the whole establishment a kind ofmodel for the sovereigns of E
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