Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Invalides: Église du Dome

Preferred Title:	Invalides: Église du Dome
Alternate Title:	Dôme des Invalides
Image View:	View of the dome, depicting ribs
Creator:	Jules Hardouin Mansart (French architect, 1646-1708)
Location:	site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
GPS:	+48.855681+2.312597
Date:	1676-1735 (creation); 1840-1861 (alteration)
Cultural Context:	French
Style Period:	Baroque; Eighteenth century
Work Type 1:	church
Work Type 2:	sepulchral chapel
Classification:	architecture
Material:	stone
Technique:	construction (assembling)
Measurements:	100 m (height)
Relation Work:	part of Invalides: Hôtel des Invalides
Subjects:	architectural exteriors; military; war; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; dome
Description:	In 1676 he was commissioned to build the church of the Hôtel des Invalides, after Libéral Bruand, who designed the rest of the complex, failed to produce a satisfactory scheme. For this almost monastic establishment for disabled soldiers, Hardouin Mansart created a bipartite building: the first part [Église St-Louis], a nine-bay nave for the pensioners, has a barrel vault and side aisles with tribunes opening through flattened arches, following 17th-century French models. The second part, beyond, is the 'great church', the Dôme, in the form of a Greek cross inscribed in a square and vaulted by a dome on a drum--a plan that Hardouin Mansart borrowed from his great-uncle's [François] designs for the 'rotunda' Bourbon chapel at Saint-Denis Abbey. The exterior of the church was conceived to give maximum emphasis to the dome, which dominates all the other buildings of the Invalides as well as the church itself. This was achieved by the insertion of an attic storey over the drum and by the graceful silhouette of th
Collection:	Archivision Addition Module Four
Identifier:	1A2-F-P-I-1-E2
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