Palais du Louvre

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Creator 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
Spatial Coverage Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Latitude 48.861111
Longitude 2.336389
Description Exterior, Cour Napoleon, Pavillon Colbert.
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
Subject Residential structures -- Dwellings -- Houses -- Official residences -- Palaces -- Royal palaces; Exhibition buildings -- Museums -- Art museums; Building divisions -- Rooms and spaces -- Uncovered spaces -- Courtyards; Use -- Adaptive reuse
Image Source Undocumented source (original photography or duplicate of original photography).
Rights Unknown copyright holder.
Contributing Institution University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections and the School of Architecture
CA+P Accession No. P0305, ARCH-16651
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s6k64nhz
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 91336
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k64nhz