Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Jules Hardouin-Mansart (also Mansard , originally only Hardouin * 16th April 1646 in Paris ; † 11. May 1708 in Marly-le-Roi ) was a French architect of the baroque .
As a pupil and great-nephew of François Mansart , he was appointed court architect by Louis XIV in 1675 , and from 1681 he was allowed to call himself “premier architecte du roi” (first architect of the king). In 1699 he was given the office of surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi , as which he dominated the entire official building industry in France until his death . In 1685 Germain Boffrand became his pupil.
In 1678 Hardouin-Mansart succeeded Louis Le Vau and François d'Orbay as construction managers of the Palace of Versailles , where he designed the garden-side facade , the north and south wings (1678-89), the colonnade , the Grand Commun , and the Versailles Palace Chapel (1699 started) and the Grand Trianon Park Palace (1687/88). In Paris he built the Invalides Cathedral from 1675 to 1706 . He also designed the Place des Victoires (1684) and Place Vendôme (1685) and the parish church of Saint-Roch .
The mansard roofs attributed to him or his great-uncle François Mansart as an invention and therefore named after them , they both gladly built into their designs and contributed to their popularization - but they did not invent them.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart. In: Structurae
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| SURNAME | Hardouin-Mansart, Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mansard, originally just Hardouin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1646 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1708 |
| Place of death | Marly-le-Roi |