03 — ARTWORK
Exterior view
DELAMAIR, Pierre-Alexis · 1710 →
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CURRENT LOCATION · Hôtel de Soubise
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COMMENTARY
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Pierre-Alexis Delamair designed the Hôtel de Soubise to include a courtyard with a peristyle. The façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. displays the rigorous compositional symmetry of yellowish stone and gray slate roof typical of Paris. Its two-storey frontispiece carries no marked features except the reclining figures on the pedimenta gable supported actually or apparently on columns. (c. 1710).
In 1732, the prince de Rohan was married and he decided to give a fresh, modern decorative appearance to the residence, built a quarter of a century earlier. He commissioned Germain Boffrand to design a new room, which became known as the SalonIn the French language of the 18th and 19th centuries it designated an actual exhibition space, as well as the academic art exhibitions staged in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre since 1667. From 1737, the exhibitions took place biennially and, after the French Revolution, annually in the Salon Carré of the Louvre in Paris. Towards the end of the 19th century the official Salon jury was dissolved in order to make way for a committee of state-approved artists, i.e. former Salon members, who created the highly influential Société des Artistes Français. Ovale de la Princesse.
The photo shows the façade of the building.
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OTHER WORKS BY PIERRE-ALEXIS DELAMAIR
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