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Jacques Lemercier (French pronunciation: [ʒak ləmɛʁsje]; c. 1585 in Pontoise – 13 January 1654 in Paris) was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from French traditions of the previous century and current ...
May 31, 2024 · Jacques Lemercier (born 1585, Pontoise, France—died June 4, 1654, Paris) was a French architect who, along with François Mansart and Louis Le Vau, shaped French architecture by introducing classical elements.
Jacques Lemercier (ou Le Mercier), né en 1585 et mort le 13 janvier 1654, est un architecte français. Il travaillera plusieurs années aux côtés de Louis XIII puis de Louis XIV . Biographie. Jacques Lemercier appartient à une famille d'architectes et de maîtres-maçons de Pontoise, déjà bien établie en Île-de-France et connue dès le XVIe siècle.
Jacques Lemercier was a French architect and engineer who is credited, along with fellow architects Louis Le Vau and François Mansart, as one of the primary influences that brought classicism to the Baroque, Roman influenced architecture of the time and revitalizing the French architectural traditions that had lay dormant for over a century.
Jun 11, 2024 · Lemercier was architect to Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642) for whom he built the Palais Cardinal (later Royal) in Paris (1624–36—destroyed, apart from a piece of external wall), and the domed Church of the Sorbonne, Paris (begun 1626—probably based on the Church of San Carlo ai Catinari, Rome), with a fine Corinthian portico on the ...
May 18, 2018 · views 3,393,912 updated May 18 2018. Lemercier, Jacques ( c. 1585–1654). Important mid-C17 French architect. He worked on the Square Court of the Louvre in Paris, begun by Lescot, and was responsible for the Pavillon de l'Horloge (completed 1641) in which he introduced an Order of caryatids above the Attic carrying a triangular pediment ...
The structure and its iconic square-domed roof were designed by architect Jacques Lemercier, who was selected in a competition in 1624. On 1 September 1794, a semaphore or télégraphe of the type recently invented by Claude Chappe was installed at the top of the Pavilion.
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