Louvre_-_Élévation_de_la_principale_facade_au_côté_de_Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois_-_Architecture_françoise_Tome4_Livre6_Pl7.jpg

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English: Plate 7. The Louvre in Paris: elevation of the principal facade facing Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois . From Architecture françoise , Tome 4, Livre 6. For Blondel's discussion of this plate (in French), see p. 40 of tome 4 (at Gallica). The engraving shows statues and decorations that were planned but not executed. The pedimented semicircular niches for statues along the recessed walls behind the arrays of coupled columns to either side of the central avant-corps were replaced with windows in 1807 after the Louvre was transformed into a public museum. Decoration of the facade (to designs differing from those shown here) was carried out by Lemot and Cartellier in 1808–1810.
  • Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (1995). The Louvre: An Architectural History . New York: The Vendome Press. ISBN 9780865659636 .
Date 1667–1674 (design and construction)
1756 (publication of the plate in Blondel's Architecture françoise )
Source Scan from the original work: Réimpression [1904] de l' Architecture françoise de Jacques-François Blondel (Paris, 1752–1756).
Author Architect:
Claude Perrault (1613–1688) wikidata:Q347699 s:it:Autore:Claude Perrault
Claude Perrault
Alternative names
Claude Perreau; Perrault
Description French architect, physician and teacher
Date of birth/death 25 September 1613 Edit this at Wikidata 9 October 1688 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work period 1633 Edit this at Wikidata –1688 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
France
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q347699
Author:
Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774) wikidata:Q430136 s:fr:Auteur:Jacques-François Blondel
Jacques-François Blondel
Description French architect, teacher and writer
Date of birth/death 8 January 1705 Edit this at Wikidata 9 January 1774 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rouen Paris
Work location
France
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q430136

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