# Interior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GITTARD, Daniel]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary In the first half of the seventeenth century, like most cities, Paris endowed itself with new parish churches, all based on a deliberately traditional - therefore medieval - framework: a central nave with aisles, transept, and ambulatory. Yet, by adapting certain modern forms, each one acquired its own character. Gittard's plans for the huge new church of Saint-Sulpice were preferred to those of Louis Le Vau: Gittard supplied the general design and built the sanctuary, ambulatory, apsidal chapels, transept and north portal \(1670–78\), after which work was suspended for lack of funds. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/g/gittard/sulpice.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">ground plan</a> of Saint-Sulpice. ## Related artworks - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()