Jules Hardouin Mansart

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Jules Hardouin Mansart

Jules Hardouin-Mansart, marble bust by

Jean-Louis Lemoyne: a full-dress Baroque

portrait bust demonstrates that the King's

architect is no mere craftsman

Jules Hardouin-Mansart (16 April 1646 11 May 1708) was a

French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of

French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of

Louis XIV. Hardouin-Mansart was one of the most important

European architects of the seventeenth century.

Biography

Born Jules Hardouin in Paris, he studied under his renowned

great-uncle Franois Mansart, one of the originators of the classical

tradition in French architecture; Hardouin inherited Mansart's

collection of plans and drawings and adopted his well-regarded name.

He also learned from Libral Bruant, architect of the royal veteran's

hospital in Paris known as Les Invalides. Hardouin-Mansart served as

Louis XIV's chief architect, first enlarging the royal chteau of

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, then at Versailles from 1675. He became the

surintendant des Btiments du Roi (Superintendent of royal buildings).

He designed all the extensions and rebuildings at Versailles for the

King, including the north and south wings, the Royal Chapel (with Robert de Cotte, 1710), and the celebrated Hall of

Mirrors decorated by Charles Le Brun, his collaborator. Outside the chteau proper, he built the Grand Trianon and

the Orangerie, as well as subsidiary royal dwellings not far away, such as the Chteau de Marly (begun in 1679).

Among his other best-known works, in Paris, are the Pont-Royal, theglise Saint-Roch, the Invalides great domed

royal chapel glise du Dme des Invalides dedicated to Saint Louis (designed in 1680), the Place des Victoires(168486) followed by thePlace Vendme (1690). Most of these works still set their stamp on the character of Paris

and can be seen by a modern-day tourist.

His most prominent position in France put him in place to create many of the significant monuments of the period,

and to set the tone for the restrained French Late Baroque architectural style, somewhat chastened by academic

detailing, that was influential as far as Saint Petersburg and even echoed in Constantinople. At the same time, the

size of support staff in his official bureaucratic position has often raised criticisms that he was less than directly

responsible for the work that was constructed under his name, criticisms that underestimate the discipline control

within a large, classically-trained studio.

Chteau de Dampierre: a domesticated version of

Baroque for a patron in Louis XIV's inner circle

Hardouin-Mansart used the mansard roof (mansarde), named for

his great-uncle Franois Mansart, at the chteau of

Dampiere-en-Yvelines, built for the duc de Chevreuse, Colbert's

son-in-law, a patron at the center of Louis XIV's court. This

French Baroque chteau of manageable size lies entre cour et

jardin as even Versailles did, the paved and gravel forecourt (cour

d'honneur) protected behind fine wrought iron double gates, and

enclosed by the main block and its outbuildings (corps de logis),

linked by balustrades, symmetrically disposed. A traditional

French touch is the modest pedimented entrance flanked by boldly

projecting pavilions. Behind, the central axis is extended between
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the former parterres, now grass. The park with formally shaped water was laid out by Andr Le Ntre. There are

sumptuous interiors. The small scale makes it easier to compare to the approximately contemporary Het Loo

(Netherlands), for William III of Orange.

He died at Marly-le-Roi in 1708.

Portrait of

Hardouin-Mansart

by Hyacinthe

Rigaud.

Portrait of

Hardouin-Mansart

by Franois de

Troy.

Place Vendme in

Paris by

Hardouin-Mansart.

Grand Trianon in

Versailles.

Church of

the Htel des

Invalides in

Paris

References

"Jules Mansard". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
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