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
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
Jean Marot (architect)
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Jean Marot was a French architect and engraver of architectural views. Little has survived of his own architectural work, but his engravings of the works of others, primarily those published in the vo
Jean Marot
Perspective view of the street facade of Salomon de Brosse's Palais du Luxembourg in 1649, as engraved by Marot in collaboration with Israël Silvestre and Stefano della Bella
General perspective view of Jacques Lemercier's Château de Richelieu, engraved by Marot c. 1657, with embellishments by Jean Lepautre