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THE CHRONOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURAL
THEORIA, PRAXIS AND POIESIS
IN

EUROPE

1650 - 1659

Introduction
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Articles - Lectures - Bibliography

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• 1650
  • France
    • Paris, Île Saint-Louis
      • Hôtel Lauzun (1650-58).
        Commissioner: Grüyn des Bordes.
        Arch.: Louis Le Vau (1612-70).
        Decorator: Charles Lebrun (1619-90), Le Sueur, Patel and Sébastien Bourdon.
        1. Salon de musique #1.
        2. Salon de musique #2.
• 1651
• 1652
  • France
    • Paris
      • Louvre and Tuilleries.
        1. Plan. From the Map of Paris
           by Bamboust.
• 1653
  • Papal States
    • Rome
      • Church of Santa Agnese in Agone, exterior (1653-57).
        Commissioner: Pope Innocentius X (1644-55).
        Arch.: Francesco Borromini (1599-1667).
        1. Façade #1.
        2. Façade #2.
        3. Façade #3 (the fountain was built by Bernini in 1648-51).
        4. Façade #4.
        5. Plan.
• 1654
  • France
    • Paris
      • Convet of Val-de-Grâce (1654-65).
        Arch.: Gabriel Le Duc.
        1. Plan, including the Church (begun 1645).
      • Louvre, Pavillon de l'Horloge and north-west wing completed (1654-57)
        by Louis le Vau (1612-70).
        1. View.
  • Sweden
    • Skokloster
      • Skokloster Castle (1654-76)
        Commissioner: Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel (?-1676)
        1. Façade
• 1655
• 1656
  • Papal States
    • Rome
      • Piazza di S. Pietro and the Colonnade (1656-67).
        Commissioner: Pope Alexander VII (1655-67).
        Arch.: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).
        1. Plan.
        2. Alternate design by Bernini.
        3. View #1.
        4. View #2.
        5. View #3.
        6. Colonnade, detail #1.
        7. Colonnade, detail #2.
      • S. Maria della Pace (1656-57).
        Arch.: Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669).
        1. Façade, engraving.
        2. Façade, view #1.
        3. Façade, view #2.
        4. The Pediment, detail.
• 1657
  • France
    • Paris
      • Louvre, Plans for completing la Cour Carée (1657-60).
        Arch.: Louis le Vau (1612-70).
        1. The first project.
    • Vaux-le-Vicomte (Seine-et-Marne)
      • Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (1657-61).
        Commissioner: Nicholas Fouquet.
        Arch.: Louis Le Vau (1612-70).
        Decorator: Charles Lebrun (1619-90). Garden arch.: André Le Nôtre (1613-1700).
        1. Plan.
        2. View of Forecourt.
        3. North Façade #1, the entrance.
        4. North façade #2
        5. West Façade.
        6. South Façade #1, to the garden.
        7. South Façade #2.
        8. Gardens, view to south #1.
        9. Gardens, view to south #2.
        10. Gardens, view to north.
        11. Air view.
        12. Gardens, perspective drawing.
        13. Gardens, air view from the south #1.
        14. Gardens, air view from the south #2.
        15. Grand Salon #1.
        16. Grand Salon #2.
        17. Grand Salon #3.
        18. Grand Salon, detail.
        19. Chambre du Roi #1.
        20. Chambre du Roi #2.
        21. Chambre du Roi #3.
        22. Chambre du Roi #4.
• 1658
  • Papal States
    • Rome
      • Church of St. Peter, Cattedra Petri (1658-66).
        Commissioner: Pope Alexander VII (1655-67).
        Arch.: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).
        1. View.
      • Church of S. Andrea al Quirinale (1658-70).
        Arch.: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).
        1. Façade.
        2. Interior.
        3. The Dome.
        4. The Dome, detail.
  • Savoy-Piedmont
    • Turin
      • Palazzo Reale.
        Commissioner: Madama Reale, Cristina di Francia.
        Arch.: Carlo di Castellamonte.
• 1659

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