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The palace of the sun : the Louvre of Louis XIV

Title
  1. The palace of the sun : the Louvre of Louis XIV / Robert W. Berger ; with a chapter on materials and structure written in collaboration with Rowland J. Mainstone.
Published by
  1. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1993], ©1993.
Author
  1. Berger, Robert W.

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Description
  1. xx, 232 pages, 80 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plans; 29 cm
Subject
  1. Paris (France) > Buildings, structures, etc
  2. Classicism in architecture > France > Paris
  3. Louvre (Paris, France)
  4. Architecture > France > Paris > History > 18th century
  5. Architecture > France > Paris > History > 17th century
Contents
  1. I. Regia Solis -- II. Early Projects for the East Wing -- III. The Petit Conseil (1667-l668) -- IV. Three Proposals by Claude Perrault -- V. Building the Louvre -- VI. Materials and Structure / Robert W. Berger and Roland J. Mainstone -- VII. In the Eye of the Connoisseur -- VIII. The Attribution Question -- App. A The Work of the Petit Conseil (1667-1668): A Catalogue Raisonne of the Surviving Drawings and One Medal -- App. B The Couple-Columns Debate -- App. C Claude Perrault and the Piliers de Tutelle, Bordeaux -- App. D The Palmyra-Baalbek Hypothesis -- App. E Colonnade, Peristyle, Galerie, Portique: A Note on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century Nomenclature -- Sources I: Building the Louvre (1667-1680): Allocations and Payments from the Comptes des batiments du roi -- Sources II: Documents and Writings on the Louvre (l667-1792).
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.