Place Vendome (Paris, France) : General diagonal view of Place Vendôme, from southeast corner
- Creator:
- Mansart, Jules Hardouin, 1646-1708
- Published/Created:
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
1806-1811 - Date Depicted:
- 1993
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Materials:
- stone
- Notes:
- Place Vendôme is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. As in the Place des Victoires, Hardouin Mansart used the traditional Italian façade design of a giant pilaster order over a rusticated, arcaded ground floor in the first version (1685) of his plan for the Place Vendôme (formerly Place Louis-le-Grand), which proposed an arcaded square with buildings housing the royal library and academies. Due to financial difficulties this was not executed, and only in 1699 was a revised version built by Hardouin Mansart. The final form of the Place Vendôme incorporates bevelled interior corners to the rectangular plan, which has only two openings, one at each end, forming a principal axis. The elements of the earlier façade design remained unchanged, with elegant, restrained, slightly projecting classical Corinthian temple fronts placed at the centres of the long sides and in the bevelled corners; round-headed dormer windows have curved frames that hint at the Baroque. Originally the square had an equestrian statue of Louis XIV by François Girardon (1699, destroyed); now the Vendôme Column stands in the square.
- Variant Titles:
- Place Louis-le-Grand
- Topics:
- Architecture -- France -- 17th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Seventeenth century
- Culture:
- French
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-HMJ-PV-B1
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architecture; rulers and leaders; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 Seventeenth century buildings; dwellings; multiple dwellings; row houses; open spaces; squares (open spaces)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Five
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
1993 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4090
- OID:
- 10052924
- PID:
- digcoll:1794164