Louis Le Vau
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Louis Le Vau was a French architect, who worked for King Louis XIV. Along with Salomon de Brosse, Jacques Lemercier, and François Mansart, Louis Le Vau was one of the early exponents of French archite
Louis Le Vau, c. 1650
Plan of the premier étage with the Seine to the right
Garden façades viewed from the riverbank
Pavilion of the King (east façade)
Jacques Lemercier
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Jacques Lemercier was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from Frenc
Jacques Lemercier in 1644 by Philippe de Champaigne with the Sorbonne Chapel in the background
Lemercier's Pavillon de l’Horloge at the Louvre
Relief of ship anchors and prows, a surviving remnant of Lemercier's Palais-Cardinal
The chapel at the Sorbonne, 1635: prototype for Mansart's at Les Invalides.