The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze (/ˌluːi kæˈtɔːrz, - kəˈ-/ LOO-ee ka-TORZ, - kə-, French: [lwi katɔʁz] ), also called French classicism, was the...
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Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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Baroque (redirect from Baroque style)
style is closely associated with the works built for Louis XIV (reign 1643–1715), and because of this, it is also known as the Louis XIV style. Louis...
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during the reign of Louis XV. From 1710 until about 1730, a period known as the Régence, it was largely an extension of the Louis XIV style of his great-grandfather...
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of the Louis XIV style. It employed marquetry, using inlays of exotic woods of different colors, as well as ivory and mother of pearl. The style had three...
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of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of...
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17th-century French art (redirect from Louis XIV Style)
Baroque painting French Baroque music Classicism Louvre Colonnade Style Louis XIV Louis Quinze Brzyski, Anna (2007-10-08). Partisan Canons. Duke University...
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The Château Louis XIV is a château constructed between 2008 and 2011 in the commune of Louveciennes in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region...
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Louis XIV was a king of France who reigned 1643–1715. Louis XIV or Louis Quatorze may also refer to: Louis XIV style, of architecture and design Louis...
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setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the Style Louis XIV. Puget was born at the home of his father, a stone mason, in the working-class...
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Regency style, and late-Federal style. All Empire ornament is governed by a rigorous spirit of symmetry reminiscent of the Louis XIV style. Generally...
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The Louis XIII style or Louis Treize was a fashion in French art and architecture, especially affecting the visual and decorative arts. Its distinctness...
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decorative motifs of Louis XVI style were inspired by antiquity, the Louis XIV style, and nature. Characteristic elements of the style: a torch crossed with...
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apparent of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of his own son, Louis, Duke of Burgundy...
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calvaire (1910) Sept Pièces enfantines (1911) Pavane de mademoiselle (Style Louis XIV) (undated) Paul Le Flem: Quintette & Sonate, Timpani 1C1077 (2004)...
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Regency architecture (redirect from Regency Style)
style. The period coincides with the Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Federal style in the United States and the French Empire style....
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[ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Paris, France...
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centre of it is Parque de María Luisa, designed in a "Moorish paradisical style", with a half mile of tiled fountains, pavilions, walls, ponds, benches...
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1715) was a French sculptor of the Louis XIV style or French Baroque, best known for his statues and busts of Louis XIV and for his statuary in the gardens...
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Beaux-Arts architecture (redirect from Beaux-Arts style)
Beaux-Arts style evolved from the French classicism of the Style Louis XIV, and then French neoclassicism beginning with Style Louis XV and Style Louis XVI....
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Petit appartement du roi (section Louis XIV)
finest extant examples of the Louis XV style and Louis XVI style at Versailles (Kimball, 1943). Beginning in 1678, Louis XIV began to modify these rooms...
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Gründerzeit (redirect from Wilhelmine style)
Complete housing developments in the so-called Founding Epoch Architecture style arose in previously green fields, and even today, Central European cities...
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and applied decorative painting. It is a style transitional between Louis XVI and Empire. The Directoire style was primarily established by the architects...
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French Baroque architecture (category Baroque architectural styles)
French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–1643), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–1774). It was preceded...
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Châteauesque (redirect from Château style)
Châteauesque (or Francis I style, or in Canada, the Château Style) is a revivalist architectural style based on the French Renaissance architecture of...
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Indo-Saracenic architecture (redirect from Hindoo style)
Neo-Mughal, in the 19th century often Indo-Islamic style) was a revivalist architectural style mostly used by British architects in India in the later...
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The Pombaline style was a Portuguese architectural style of the 18th century, named after Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the first Marquês de Pombal...
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tradition of Baroque art. He was instrumental in the development of the Style Louis XIV through his own work as well as through his many pupils. Nearly all...
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sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French sculptor of the late French Baroque or Style Louis XIV, and early neo-classicism...
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Neo-Byzantine architecture (redirect from Neo-Byzantine style)
institutional and public buildings. It incorporates elements of the Byzantine style associated with Eastern and Orthodox Christian architecture dating from...
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