ARCH 218 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Domenico Da Cortona, Place Des Vosges, Tuileries Palace
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Early french renaissance: using medieval forms with classical decoration. High french renaissance: taking renaissance and using it correctly rather than a deviation from it. Built by french king in an effort to get noblemen to move to france and make paris a new center of culture. French baroque is much more restrained, simple plans, greater respect for details, focus on proportions of traditional orders. Shows power, order, correctness, and the power of the state. Gardens appear to stretch to infinity, designed to horizon line. Plants are non-native and are carefully shaped and maintained in order to show human dominance over nature. Use of light curvilinear decoration on walls and ceilings, lightened color schemes, more mirrored surfaces, softened angles based in part on plant forms. Reaction against the formality of louis xiv"s court. Final east facade and plan by claude perrault.
