Classical, Baroque
Versailles, or the Architecture of the Prince
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5839367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis Marin, Anna Lehman |
| Year | 1991 |
| Issue | 80 |
| Pages | 167-167 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Yale French Studies (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-0078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8691 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2930266 |
| OpenAlex | W2341863525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
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 principal floor-the royal floor-an independent portico of six columns interrupts with its powerful relief the repetitive rhythm of the faqade in favor of a stable and firmly determined foyer. Whatever Versailles's legitimate right in laying claim to classicism, it is nonetheless true that, in Anglo-Saxon countries in particular, classicism in art and notably in architecture is often considered a French peripeteia of a great baroque period which is born of international mannerism in the sixteenth century and ends in the precious and spiraled graces of rococo, while awaiting the so-called neo-classic resurrection around 1750. It is not a matter here of resolving (either by a combination of formal and stylistic features, or by an even finer diachrony of historical developments particularized according to cultural and geographic areas) the problems, indeed the aporias in method and theory, in periodization and chronology, raised when a work of art, a construction plan or form of reception is designated as baroque or classical. I will therefore set aside this endless query to evoke only in its broadest
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2024 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |