Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Invalides: Hôtel des Invalides

Preferred Title: 
Invalides: Hôtel des Invalides
Alternate Title: 
Hôtel des Invalides
Image View: 
Court, showing the northwest corner
Creator: 
Jules Hardouin Mansart (French architect, 1646-1708); Libéral Bruand (French architect, ca.1635-1697)
Location: 
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note: 
Les Invalides
GPS: 
+48.856494+2.312702
Date: 
1671-1674 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Baroque; Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Seventeenth century
Work Type 1: 
historic site
Work Type 2: 
church
Work Type 3: 
hospital
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
stone
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Subjects: 
architectural exteriors; death or burial; historical; military; war; rulers and leaders; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; barracks; hostel; pensioners; retirees; veterans; court
Description: 
Marquis de Louvois (1641-1691), invited Bruand in 1670 to submit a design for a veterans? hospital and home to be built in Paris. Construction began in 1671 and proceeded rapidly; by 1674 the Invalides was sufficiently complete for it to be dedicated and partially occupied. Unfortunately, the relationship between Louvois and Bruand deteriorated amid allegations of falsified accounts and Bruand?s alleged orders for unauthorized changes, and after 1675 Jules Hardouin Mansart effectively displaced Bruand as principal architect. The Hôtel looks like a huge barracks, with a four-storey façade, without order, punctuated between its pavilions only by the series of verticals that mark the bays of the secondary entrances; but on the royal courtyard, the elevation, reduced to two levels of arcades corresponding to the open circulation galleries, achieves nobility in its sobriety. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Four
Identifier: 
1A2-F-P-I-3-B4
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.