COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Place Alphonse-Laveran
Image View:
South fountain (1995), seen from the corner of Rue du Val-de-Grâce
Creator:
François Mansart (French architect, ca. 1598-1666)
Location:
site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:
5th arrondissement; quartier du Val-de-Grâce
GPS:
+48.84088+2.340857
Date:
ca. 1646 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Seventeenth century
Work Type 1:
square (open space)
Work Type 2:
fountain
Classification:
architecture
Material:
paving; lighting
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Measurements:
20 m (width) x 35 m (length)
Subjects:
architecture; cityscape; City planning; Street lighting
Description:
This site consists of the space created in front of the church of Val-de-Grâce by Rue Val-de-Grâce and the Rue Saint-Jacques. It exists because Mansart planned a set back from the street for the church; the size of which was precisely calculated so that from the forecourt the dome would disappear completely behind the frontispiece. It takes its name (in 1930) from the military doctor and bacteriologist Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922). Laveran won the Nobel Prize in 1907. The two modern fountains were installed in 1995. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier:
1A2-F-P-PAL-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Place Alphonse-Laveran
