ARC131H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Madame De Pompadour, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
7 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Analyze the development of paris as urban concepts, Claude perrault, louis le vau, charles le brun, louvre, east fa ade, designed in 1665-7, completed 1680s reconsideration of the palace to be the new capitol of paris. Bernini, lost the competition to a group of younger architects who conceptualized the idea of orders as a language (a palace of the modern king) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Versailles, garden fa ade, louis le vau 1668, hardouin-mansart, 1678. Think about the perspective as the subject. 17th century - the great century, the century of mathematics: mathematical breakthrough -> the re-addressing the issues that were already touched by ancient mathematians. They came up with new solutions. (geometry, relate it to numbers: organization of cities is important, at the start of modern / industrial era as the cartesian grid. Woman citizens commanded louis the 16th to return to paris. (they lived in versailles) Jean-baptiste ruby, fountain of apollo, the grand canal, 1668-1771.
