Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Val-de-Grâce
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Preferred Title:
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Val-de-Grâce
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Alternate Title:
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Church of Val-de-Grâce
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Image View:
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The west front, depicting the drum and dome
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Creator:
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François Mansart (French architect, ca. 1598-1666); Jacques Lemercier (French architect, ca.1584-1654)
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Location:
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site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Location Note:
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5th arrondissement
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GPS:
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+48.840556+2.341944
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Date:
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1645-1667 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Baroque
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Work Type 1:
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church
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders; religious
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Description:
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In 1645 Mansart was appointed by the queen, Anne of Austria, to add a church and palace to the convent of the Val-de-Grâce, which she frequently visited on retreat. For this project Mansart devised a highly imaginative scheme based on the Escorial in Spain, where Anne had spent her youth. His design for the church was original in many respects, with bell-towers flanking the nave and a projecting single-storey entrance portico, more reminiscent of his château frontispieces than of a conventional church front. The portico was possibly influenced by that on the north side of Jacques Le Mercier's church of the Sorbonne (1635-1648). The plan of the church of the Val-de-Grâce is characterized by a dominant central domed space at the crossing, surrounded by three equal apses for the choir and transepts, a layout reminiscent of that adopted by Andrea Palladio for Il Redentore (1576-1580), Venice, where there is a similar play on circular forms. The whole of the domed space is located in a square block that projects s
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Three
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-P-VG-A2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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