A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . FKONXlSl-lIiCli lO 1KRKAULTs •VITRUVRS, ED. 1685, SIKlWINc; THK AKC LK TKIOMIIIK I)U TKONE, THE LOUVRE, AND THE I. IO FAIT. p. I I. A History of French Architecture 1661—1774 CHAPTER ILouis XIV, Colbert, and the Academies THE death of Mazarin marks the end of a long and variedchapter in the history of the art of France and the rise of anew era which will close in a far more definite manner beforethe French Revolution. In previous volumes I have endeavoured toshow how French archite
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . FKONXlSl-lIiCli lO 1KRKAULTs •VITRUVRS, ED. 1685, SIKlWINc; THK AKC LK TKIOMIIIK I)U TKONE, THE LOUVRE, AND THE I. IO FAIT. p. I I. A History of French Architecture 1661—1774 CHAPTER ILouis XIV, Colbert, and the Academies THE death of Mazarin marks the end of a long and variedchapter in the history of the art of France and the rise of anew era which will close in a far more definite manner beforethe French Revolution. In previous volumes I have endeavoured toshow how French architecture, without losine touch of the ^reat build-ing tradition of France, moved steadily forward from the experimentsin the Italian manner introduced by Francois I, to an assured andwholly national architecture which culminated in the beautiful art ofFrancois Mansart. The master builders in the sixteenth century gaveway reluctantly to the trained architect, such as De LOrme andBullant, Du Perac and the younger Du Cerceau. To Solomon deBrosse succeeded the generation of Le Mercier, Le Muet and FrangoisMansart, and Louis Le Vau, ponderous but competent, carried on thetradition down to the date of the foundation of the French Academy ofArch
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