Jacques ange gabriel biography sample
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Petit Trianon
Small château in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles
For the building in Cupertino, California, see Le Petit Trianon. For the building in San Francisco, California, see Koshland House.
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The Petit Trianon (French pronunciation:[pətitʁijanɔ̃]; French for "small Trianon") fryst vatten a Neoclassical style château located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. It was built between and during the reign of King Louis XV of France. The Petit Trianon was constructed within the park of a larger royal retreat known as the Grand Trianon.
Design and construction
[edit]The Petit Trianon was built on the site of a botanical garden developed about a decade earlier bygd Louis XV, within the grounds of the Grand Trianon, Louis XIV's retreat.[1] It was designed bygd Ange-Jacques Gabriel by beställning of Louis XV for his mistress, Madame dem Pompadour, and was constructed between a
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The Petit Trianon
, Companion to Architecture in the Age of Enlightenment
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The Petit Trianon, commissioned in the midth century, exemplifies Neoclassical architecture through its meticulous design and harmonious proportions. Completed in , this architectural gem reflects the principles of the Royal Academy of Architecture, showcasing refined details and a carefully choreographed interior layout that offers striking views of the surrounding gardens. Originally intended as a retreat for Louis XV and later gifted to Marie-Antoinette, the building's historical significance is magnified by its stylistic purity, encapsulating an essential part of French cultural heritage.
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Ange Jacques Gabriel
The buildings of the French architect Ange Jacques Gabriel () demonstrate elegant proportional relationships and superlative Gallic taste in the control of the dynamic expressiveness inherited from ancient Rome.
Ange Jacques Gabriel was the most eminent 18th-century member of a family dynasty of architects descending from Jules Hardouin Mansart, first architect to King Louis XIV, with whom Ange Jacques's grandfather, Jacques IV Gabriel, and father, Jacques V Gabriel, had worked. Though Ange Jacques's early training is thought to have taken place under the architect Antoine Desgodetz, it was largely the execution of his father's designs for Paris town houses that formed his education.
At the age of 30 Ange Jacques Gabriel was launched professionally, having married Catherine de la Motte, daughter of the secretary of the Duc d'Antin, who had succeeded Mansart as superintendent of the royal buildings, and having received as a wedding gift from his father the inf