Louis Le Vau

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Louis Le Vau was a prominent 17th-century French architect best known as one of the principal designers of the Palace of Versailles and a leading figure of French Baroque architecture.

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Louis Le Vau canonical 19

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque architect
French architect
architect
human
activeIn 17th-century France
Paris
Île-de-France region
surface form: Île-de-France
birthName Louis Le Vau self-link
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of France
dateOfBirth 1612
dateOfDeath 1670
employer French royal court
Louis XIV of France
era 17th century
ethnicGroup French
genre château architecture
palace architecture
urban hôtel particulier
influenced French Baroque architects
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
influencedBy Italian Baroque architecture
knownFor collaboration with landscape architect André Le Nôtre
collaboration with painter Charles Le Brun
integration of architecture and landscape design at Vaux-le-Vicomte
languageSpoken French
movement Baroque
surface form: Baroque architecture

French Baroque architecture
surface form: French Baroque
name Louis Le Vau self-link
notableAchievement major contributor to the development of French Baroque classicism
principal designer of early expansions of the Palace of Versailles
notableWork Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Collège des Quatre-Nations
Hôtel Lambert
Hôtel Lauzun
Palais de l’Institut de France
surface form: Institut de France building

Louvre Palace
Château de Versailles
surface form: Palace of Versailles

Tuileries Palace
surface form: Tuileries Palace extensions

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
surface form: Vaux-le-Vicomte

Gardens of the Palace of Versailles
surface form: Versailles garden façade
occupation architect
royal architect
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Paris
placeOfDeath Kingdom of France
Paris
positionHeld First architect to the king
studentOf Louis Le Vau’s father (builder in Paris)
style Baroque classicism
monumental classicism

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Referenced by (19)

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Institut de France designedBy Louis Le Vau
Tuileries Palace architect Louis Le Vau
Église Saint-Roch de Paris (original burial, later lost) architect Louis Le Vau
subject surface form: Église Saint-Roch de Paris
Nicolas Fouquet patronOf Louis Le Vau
Château de Fontainebleau architect Louis Le Vau
Louvre Palace architect Louis Le Vau
Louis Le Vau name Louis Le Vau self-link
Louis Le Vau birthName Louis Le Vau self-link
French Baroque art majorArchitect Louis Le Vau
Château de Versailles architect Louis Le Vau
Colonnade of the Louvre architect Louis Le Vau