Château de Maisons
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The Château de Maisons, designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French Baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture. The château is lo
Château de Maisons, southeast-facing garden front
The cour d'honneur and the entrance front
Main vestibule, viewed toward the stair hall in the right wing
Main vestibule ceiling
François Mansart
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François Mansart was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into the Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopædia Britannica identifies him as the most accomplished of 17th-centur
Château de Maisons
…The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte ), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French Baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture. The château is located…
François Mansart, detail of a double portrait of Mansart and Claude Perrault, by Philippe de Champaigne, 1656
A model of one of Mansart's designs for the Chapel of the Bourbons.
The Château de Balleroy, Mansart's earliest surviving work
The Church of the Visitation in the Rue Saint-Antoine, Paris, now the Temple du Marais