Veues des plus beaux bastimens de France

1700 · A Paris : Chez I. Mariette, ruë St. Iacques a la Victoire · 26 pictures

Veues des plus beaux bastimens de France is a 1700 collection of engraved views of French palaces and gardens, published in Paris by I. Mariette for an audience of collectors and architecture enthusiasts. The plates show formal château façades seen from above and across broad courtyards, with gardens laid out in strict axes, clipped hedges, and fountains set among small crowds of walkers and carriages. A designer could take from them the logic of symmetrical layout, receding perspective lines, and the way tiny figures give scale to monumental architecture.

Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) -- Pictorial works · Château de Chantilly (Chantilly, France) -- Pictorial works · Châteaux -- France -- 17th century · France -- Pictorial works · France -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works · Paris (France) -- Pictorial works · Paris (France) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works · Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works

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