A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Illusions of Grandeur
A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King
This chapter contains sections titled:
A Temple of Apollo
Quoting the Roman Garden Villa
Harmonic Proportions
The Sculptural Program
Expanding the Theme of Harmony
Notes
Illusions of Grandeur
A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King
This chapter contains sections titled:
A Temple of Apollo
Quoting the Roman Garden Villa
Harmonic Proportions
The Sculptural Program
Expanding the Theme of Harmony
Notes
Illusions of Grandeur
A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King
O'Brien, Dan (editor) / Neuman, Robert (author)
2010-09-24
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Hardouin‐Mansart, synthesizing concepts of villa colonnade with peripteral temple colonnade ‐ and Hadrian's circular water channel , cosmic garden , French monarch Louis XIV, “Louisle‐Grand” or “Louis the Great” – on the European political stage , Colonnade, Versailles, with table fountains, circular water channel, spandrels and a keystone mask , illusions of grandeur ‐ A Harmonious Garden for the Sun King , Louis XIV, inheritance of royal palaces and châteaux, the Louvre in Paris ‐ lavishing attention on the old hunting lodge at Versailles , Louis XIV's principal architect, Jules Hardouin‐Mansart ‐ and the circular white‐marble arcade , Hardouin‐Mansart's circular temple and imperial villa – symbolic of the Temple of Apollo , sculpture in Spandrel 16, the putti holding a lyre and panpipe ‐ ancient legends, a comical contest between Apollo and the satyr Pan , art of gardening, status enjoyed ‐ as in painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, music and dance
ILLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR - Eileen Elliott prints images of rare Persian rugs onto concrete tiles.
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