# Interior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MANSART, François]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary It was at the Sainte-Marie de la Visitation, known as the Visitandine church, that Mansart's handling of volume displayed the virtuosity that would became his greatest strength. The circular plan was skillfully set in a square, with a rounded, apsidal chapel, whose contour cuts into the curved arc of the interior space, creating a play of "warped" volumes. Tall pilasters support an ornate, circular cornice over which a dome rises. The chapel is the sole remaining vestige of the Visitandine convent \(demolished c. 1800\), and has been a Protestant church since 1802. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Château de Berny]() - [Château de Berny]() - [Château de Berny]() - [Church and Convent of the Feuillants, Paris]() - [Elevation of the Hôtel Carnavalet, Paris]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()