This gradually became, over the decades, the master work of the Louis XIV style. īased on the success of Vaux le Vicomte, Louis XIV selected Le Vau to construct an immense new palace at Versailles, to augment a smaller palace transformed from a hunting lodge by Louis XIII. It combined a facade dominated and rhymed by colossal classical columns, beneath a dome, imported from the Italian Baroque architecture, along with a number of original features, such as a semicircular salon which looked out on the vast French formal garden created by André Le Nôtre. The design was strongly influenced by the classicism of François Mansart. Louis XIV charged Fouquet with theft, put him prison, and took the building for himself.
The model of civil architecture in the early part of the reign was Vaux le Vicomte (1658), by Louis Le Vau, built for the King's chief of finance Nicolas Fouquet and completed in 1658. The new style was lighter in form, and featured greater fantasy and freedom of line, thanks in part to the use of wrought iron decoration, and greater use of arabesque, grotesque and coquille designs, which continued into the Louis XV style. The final period of Louis XIV style, from about 1690 to 1715, is called the period of transition it was influenced by Hardouin-Mansart and by the King's designer of fetes and ceremonies, Jean Bérain the Elder. The most prominent creator of furniture in the later period was André Charles Boulle. In the later period, thanks to the development of the craft of marquetry, the furniture was decorated with different colors and different woods. Until 1680, furniture was massive, decorated with a profusion of sculpture and gilding. During the second period (1660–1690), under the personal rule of the King, the style of architecture and decoration became more classical, triumphant and ostentatious, expressed in the building of the Chateau of Versailles, first by Louis Le Vau and then Jules Hardouin-Mansart. The early period saw the beginning of French classicism, particularly in the early works of Francois Mansart, such as the Chateau de Maisons (1630–1651). During the first period, which coincided with the youth of the King (1643–1660) and the regency of Anne of Austria, architecture and art were strongly influenced by the earlier style of Louis XIII and by the Baroque style imported from Italy. Major monuments included the Palace of Versailles, the Grand Trianon at Versailles, and the Church of Les Invalides (1675–1691). Major architects of the period included François Mansart, Jules Hardouin Mansart, Robert de Cotte, Pierre Le Muet, Claude Perrault, and Louis Le Vau.
It had an important influence upon the architecture of other European monarchs, from Frederick the Great of Prussia to Peter the Great of Russia. It became the official style during the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1715), imposed upon artists by the newly established Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) and the Académie royale d'architecture (Royal Academy of Architecture).
It featured majesty, harmony and regularity. Keep in mind that only Xbox 360 games claimed via Games with Gold remain playable if the Xbox Live Gold subscription expires, while claimed Xbox One games require an active subscription.The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze ( / ˌ l uː i k æ ˈ t ɔːr z, - k ə ˈ-/ LOO-ee ka- TORZ, - kə-, French: ( listen)), also called French classicism, was the style of architecture and decorative arts intended to glorify King Louis XIV and his reign. Meanwhile from last month's Games with Gold promotion, Big Crown: Showdown is still available to Xbox One owners for free, with its freebie slot slated to be replaced by Forza Motorsport 6 on August 16.
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