Lescot, Pierre -- Architect -- French -- Male; Lemercier, Jacques -- Architect -- French -- Male; Le Vau, Louis -- Architect -- French -- Male; Le Brun, Charles -- Architect -- French -- Male; Perrault, Claude -- Architect -- French -- Male
Title
Palais du Louvre
Location
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Latitude
48.861111
Longitude
2.336389
Description
Exterior, east facade, southeast corner.
Work Dates
1546-1878; 1546 Lescot with sculptor Jean Goujon, 1624-54 Lemercier expands Cour Carree, 1660 Le Vau, after 1661 Le Brun, 1667 Le Vau, Le Brun, and Perrault east facade
Date.Earliest
1546
Century
16, 17, 18, 19
Style/Period
Renaissance; Baroque
Culture
French
Technique
Bearing masonry
Material
Cut stone
Work Type
Residential structures -- Dwellings -- Houses -- Official residences -- Palaces -- Royal palaces; Exhibition buildings -- Museums -- Art museums; Architectural elements -- Structural assemblies -- Colonnades
Subject
Use -- Adaptive reuse
Image Source
Undocumented source (original photography or duplicate of original photography).
Rights
Unknown copyright holder.
Contrib. Institution
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture
CA+P Accession No.
P0305, ARCH-10437
Digital Format
image/jpeg
RecordType
image
Digitization Specs
Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
