Anna Lehman

• Classical, Baroque: Versailles, or the Architecture of the Prince

  Louis Marin, Anna Lehman•ARTICLE•Yale French Studies•1991•Cited by: 2

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  There is no doubt something paradoxical about making Versailles out to be one of the high places of baroque architecture. The huge faqade by Louis LeVau and Jules Hardouin Mansart, which spreads out onto the gardens, has passed, and continues to pass,-perhaps rightly so-for the classical model of the royal palace: each element of the construction, although perfectly defined in itself, is subordinated to a center where, at the level of the princip…

• Classical, Baroque: Versailles, or the Architecture of the Prince

  Louis Marin, Anna Lehman•ARTICLE•Yale French Studies•1991•Cited by: 2

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  There is no doubt something paradoxical about making Versailles out to be one of the high places of baroque architecture. The huge faqade by Louis LeVau and Jules Hardouin Mansart, which spreads out onto the gardens, has passed, and continues to pass,-perhaps rightly so-for the classical model of the royal palace: each element of the construction, although perfectly defined in itself, is subordinated to a center where, at the level of the princip…

• Classical, Baroque: Versailles, or the Architecture of the Prince

  Louis Marin, Anna Lehman•ARTICLE•Yale French Studies•1991•Cited by: 2

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  There is no doubt something paradoxical about making Versailles out to be one of the high places of baroque architecture. The huge faqade by Louis LeVau and Jules Hardouin Mansart, which spreads out onto the gardens, has passed, and continues to pass,-perhaps rightly so-for the classical model of the royal palace: each element of the construction, although perfectly defined in itself, is subordinated to a center where, at the level of the princip…

Baroque (1 works) · European Political History Analysis (1 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (1 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (1 works)