COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Place des Victoires
Image View:
General view, from east, statue and encircling facade
Creator:
Baron François-Joseph Bosio (French sculptor, 1768-1845); Jules Hardouin Mansart (French architect, 1646-1708)
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:
Border of 1st and 2nd arrondissment; confluence of six streets
GPS:
+48.865833+2.341111
Date:
1685 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Seventeenth century
Work Type 1:
square (open space)
Work Type 2:
equestrian statue
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone; bronze
Technique:
casting (process); construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architecture; rulers and leaders; City planning; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
Description:
Other works by Hardouin Mansart in the 1680s included his urban plans for Paris. For the buildings surrounding the circular Place des Victoires (1685; altered 1692), Paris, he used the traditional Italian façade design of a giant pilaster order over a rusticated, arcaded ground floor. These were capped with sloping slate mansard roofs, punctuated by dormer windows. By 1692, the Place des Victoires was pierced by six streets, and the circular plan functioned as a joint that harmonized their several axes. The focus of the circular Place is now the equestrian monument in honor of King Louis XIV (celebrating the Treaties of Nijmegen concluded in 1678-1679) by Bosio (1822). The original sculpture of the king by Martin Desjardins was destroyed in 1792. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:
1A1-HMJ-PDV-A2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Place des Victoires
