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702132/702835 European Architecture B classicism & caprice COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 Warning This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of the University of Melbourne pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further copying or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. do not remove this notice CAPRICIOUS CLASSICISING BAROQUE flamboyant magnificent ROCOCO frivolous elegant THETHE COMPLETIONCOMPLETION OFOF VERSAILLESVERSAILLES Versailles: view towards Paris and the écuries, by Jean-Baptiste Martin, c 1690 Nancy Mitford, The Sun King (London 1966), facing p 96 Versailles, aerial view from the Paris side by J-B Martin Mitford, The Sun King, facing p 240 Versailles: plan of the whole complex Durand, Receuil et Parallèle, pl 60 Versailles: plan of development Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Versailles (New York 1991) p 418 Versailles, Galerie des Glaces, or Hall of Mirrors, by Hardouin- Mansart, with decoration by Lebrun, carving by Tubi, Coysevox &c, 1678-80 Rolf Toman, Baroque: Architecture, &c (no place 2007 p 136 Versailles, Galerie des Glaces during the wedding of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Dunlop, Versailles, pl 15 Versailles, Galerie des Glaces: French order by Charles Le Brun, 1678 J B Scott, 'Guarino Guarini's Invention of the Passion Capitals in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, LIV, 4 (December 1995), p 426 Versailles, Salon de la Guerre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, decorated by Le Brun, sculpture by Coysevox, from 1678, opened 1682, but completed over a period Toman, Baroque, p 136 Versailles, Salon de la Paix, 1678-80, & Salon d'Abondance, 1682, ceiling 1683. La Goélette, MUAS S11,470 VERSAILLESVERSAILLES INTERIORSINTERIORS 17001700--17151715 Marie- Adélaide, Duchesse de Bourgogne, at fifteen, by Pierre Gobert B H Dams & Andrew Zega, Pleasure Pavilions and Follies (Paris 1995), p 48 Versailles, Salon de l'Oeil de Boeuf, redecorated by Pierre le Pautre, 1701 La Goélette Chateau of Marly: designs for three chimney-pieces by Pierre le Pautre, 1699 Kalnein & Levey, Eighteenth Century France, pl 217 Trianon de Marbre west side & colonnade La Goélette Trianon de Marbre, Versailles: the Chambre du Roi, or King's Bedchamber La Goélette Versailles, King's bedchamber, redecorated by Pierre le Pautre, c 1701 La Goélette Versailles, King's bedchamber, reconstruction model La Goélette Versailles the forecourt, and the chapel by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, c 1708-10 MUAS 11,465; 28,346 Versailles chapel section & plan Reginald Blomfield, A History of French Architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 (2 vols, London 1921), I, pl lxxxvii Versailles chapel interior, & door by Pierre le Pautre Toman, Baroque, p 109. Kalnein & Levey, Art and Architecture of France, pl 219 LOUISLOUIS XVXV (1715(1715--1774)1774) Versailles, Salon d'Hercule, by Robert de Cotte, 1712 decorated 1729-36 ceiling painting of the Apotheosis of Hercules, by Antoine le Moyne, c 1733-6 La Goélette Versailles, Chambre de la Reine by A-J Gabriel & Jaques Verberckt , 1730 & 1735 La Goélette Versailles, Chambre de Louis XV, by A J Gabriel and Jaques Verberckt, 1738 MUAS 11,481 Versailles, Chambre de la Pendule, by A J Gabriel and Jaques Verberckt, 1731-9, remodelled 1760 La Goélette Versailles, Cabinet de Conseil, or Salle de Conseil du Roi, by A-J Gabriel and Antoine Rousseau, 1755 La Goélette Versailles, Cabinet Intime or Cabinet de Travail de Louis XV, or Cabinet Interieur du Roi, 1753-6 La Goélette Versailles, Cour d'Honneur: view by Israel Silvestre, 1682 from a postcard Versailles, forecourt wings refaced by A J Gabriel (north wing 1772) La Goélette CENTRALCENTRAL EUROPEANEUROPEAN PALACESPALACES design for a palace for the Elector of Mannheim, Germany Blomfield, French Architecture 1661-1774, I, pl xlix, p 151 Heemstede, near Utrecht, Holland E B MacDougall & F H Hazlehurst [eds], The French Formal Garden [3rd Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, 1973)] (Washington 1974), IV, 6 Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, first design by J B Fischer von Erlach, 1695 MacDougall & Hazlehurst, The French Formal Garden, X, 17 Schönbrunn Palace, , Vienna, by J B Fischer von Erlach, from 1695 from north Schloss Schönbrunn no 24 Schönbrunn Palace, northf front Schloss Schönbrunn no 33 Schönbrunn, south front, in a painting by R Belloto, c 1750 Paolo Morachiello, 'Schönbrunn: a Theatre of Fragments', in Monique Mosser & Georges Teyssot [eds], The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day (London 1991 [1990]), p 195 Schönbrunn, south front Schloss Schönbrunn no 1 Schönbrunn, lower basin and south front Schloss Schönbrunn no 2 Schönbrunn, plan of the gardens MUAS 10,913 Schönbrunn, Grosse Galerie [Great Gallery] Schloss Schönbrunn no 28 Schönbrunn, Chinesisches Kabinett [Chinese Cabinet] Schloss Schönbrunn no 17 Belvedere Palace, Vienna by J L von Hildebrandt: Lower, 1714-17 & Upper. 1721-7 Salomon Kleiner, Residences Memorables, 1731 Upper Belvedere, view from Lower Belvedere PAG-Verlag Wien 1, no 165 Upper Belvedere, detail of end pavilions Miles Lewis Upper Belvedere Foto Ritter Wien Upper Belvedere, the cascade Bruno Grimschitz, Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt (Vienna 1959), p 111 Upper Belvedere, entrance front plan Foto Ritter Wien; 5,772 Upper Belvedere portico Miles Lewis Upper Belvedere, lower hall PAG-Verlag Wien 1, no 168 Upper Belvedere staircase PAG-Verlag Wien 1, no 167 Grimschitz, Hildebrandt, p 127 Upper Belvedere, the Marble Room Foto Ritter Wien Upper Belvedere, detail of decoration Miles Lewis aerial view from the Upper to the Lower Belvedere Grimschitz, Hildebrandt, pl 102 Lower Belvedere Foto Ritter Wien Lower Belvedere the Grotesque Room Foto Ritter Wien Lower Belvedere, the Gold Room Miles Lewis Lower Belvedere, the Gold Room: detail Miles Lewis Lower Belvedere the Gold Room: detail Miles Lewis Lower Belvedere, the Marble Hall view & detail of ceiling painting by J G Platzer Miles Lewis; Foto Ritter Wien Zwinger Palace, Dresden, pavilion by Daniel Poppelman, 1711-22 Toman, Baroque, p 203 Zwinger pavilion by Daniel Poppelman, 1711-22 & detail of terms Toman, Baroque, pp 205, 204 Zwinger, entrance & dome MUAS 6,345; Toman, Baroque, p 204 The Residenz, Würzburg, Germany, by Balthasar Neumann from 1720, with input by Hildebrandt 1731 & 1736, completed 1743: south front Grimschitz, Hildebrandt, p 217; Toman, Baroque, p 213 Residenz, Würzburg, garden front Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 17 Residenz, Würzburg, plan and part elevations Pierre Charpentrat, Living Architecture: Baroque, Italy and Central Europe (London 1967 [1964]), p 171 Würzburg main staircase Toman, Baroque, p 219 Würzburg, the Gartensaal, or Garden Room Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 20 Würzburg, Weiser Saal, or White Room Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 25 Würzburg, Grunlackiertes Zimmer, or Green Lacquered Room Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 34 Würzburg, Kaisersaal or Imperial Room Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 26 Würzburg, Kaisersaal, Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa, by G B Tiepolo, 1752 Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 27 Würzburg, Kaisersaal, the Investiture, by Tiepolo Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 28 Würzburg, Kaisersaal, detail of the ceiling, by Tiepolo Edm. von König, Heidelberg- Dielheim, Wü 30 Würzburg, Kaisersaal, view of the ceiling Edm. von König, Heidelberg-Dielheim, Wü 29 Würzburg, the Court Church, by Neumann, 1732-4 Blunt, Baroque and Rococo, p 239 Baroque farmhouse at Illmitz, Burgenland, Austria MUAS 14,734 CENTRALCENTRAL EUROPEANEUROPEAN CHURCHESCHURCHES detail of the church at Wilhering, near Linz, Austria, c 1740, painted by Andras & Bartholomaus Altomante MUAS 2004 Obermarchtal Monastery Church, Germany, by Michael Thumb, 1686-92 MUAS 12,785; S12,786 Parish church of Rottenbuch, Bavaria, C15th, redecorated by Josef Shmutzer, 1738-1757 frescoes by Matthaus Günter René Huyghe Larousse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art [Art & Mankind (London 1964), p 316 Abbey Church of S Maria, Zwiefalten Germany, by J M Fischer, from 1739 Scala 9328; Charpentrat, Baroque Italy and Central Europe, p 130 S Maria, Zwiefalten, plan Charpentrat, Baroque Italy and Central Europe, p 130 Zwiefalten, interior Scala 9334 S Maria, Zwiefalten, ordonnance of the nave Scala 9335 S Maria, Zwiefalten, pulpit and detail: 'La Carita' Scala 9331, 9332 Abbey Church, Neresheim, Swabia, Germany by Balthasar Neumann from 1745 to 1753 , then D Wiedemann, J B Wiedemann, completed 1792: west front M H Von Freeden, Balthasar Neumann (Munich 1982), pl 84 Neresheim: Neumann’s plan and sections C F Otto, Space into Light (New York 1980 [1979]), pl 3 Pilgrimage Church [Wallfahrtskirche], Vierzehnheiligen, Northern Bavaria, Germany, by Neumann, 1744- 72: plan and section Henry Stierlin, Encyclopædia of World Architecture (2 vols, London 1977), I, p 215 Vierzehnheiligen Scala 9445 Vierzehnheiligen Von Freeden, Balthasar Neumann, pl 64; Millon, Triumph of the Baroque, p 125 Vierzehnheiligen, the sanctuary Scala 9448 Vierzehnheiligen detail of St Christopher in the sanctuary Scala 9449 Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, Salon Ovale by Germain Boffrand, with paintings by Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1737-9 Toman, Baroque, p 145 Hôtel de Soubise: detail view of the salon Ovale,panelled window reveal Blunt,
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    3 CONTENTS PrESS rELEASE 4 FOrEWOrD 7 THE CHALLENGES OF THE EXHIBITION 9 UNVEILING THE DIVErSITY OF 18TH CENTUrY SKILLS AND DESIGNS 10 SEEING, UNDErSTANDING, APPrECIATING... 12 A DIFFErENT PErSPECTIVE ON 18TH-CENTUrY FUrNITUrE 13 THE EXHIBITION 15 PLAN 16 A VISUAL LABOrATOrY 17 CABINET-MAKING 18 JOINErY, SEATING 32 IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXHIBITION 43 PUBLICATIONS 44 JEAN NOUVEL ABC 46 THE ÉCOLE BOULLE 48 MAÎTrES D'ArT VISITS 49 PArTNErS OF THE EXHIBITION 51 SPONSOrS 52 Press contactscontacts MEDIA PArTNErS 54 HélèneHélène Dalifard,Dalifard, AurélieAurélie Gevrey, Elsa Martin,Martin, APPENDICES 59 Violaine SolariSolari PrACTICAL INFOrMATION 60 VISUALS AVAILABLE TO THE PrESS 62 T : + 3333(0)(0) 1 30 83 75 21 [email protected] 4 PrESS rELEASE 18th century, birth of design FUrNITUrE MASTErPIECES, 1650 TO 1790 THrOUGH THE EYES OF JEAN NOUVEL 28TH OCTOBEr 2014 - 22ND FEBrUArY 2015, AFrICA rOOMS AND CrIMEA rOOM THE PALACE OF VErSAILLES IS PrOUD TO PrESENT ITS EXHIBITION OF FUrNITUrE MASTErPIECES FrOM 1650 TO 1789, WITH rEPrESENTATIVE EXAMPLES OF THE rICHLY CrEATIVE WOrK OF THE PErIOD. THE EXHIBITION OFFErS A GLIMPSE OF THE INGENUITY OF A BYGONE ErA VIEWED THrOUGH THE LENS OF THE PrESENT DAY AND SHOWCASES THE INNOVATIVE, AVANT-GArDE NATUrE OF THE SHAPES, TECHNIQUES, OrNAMENTATION AND MATErIALS USED IN 18TH CENTUrY FUrNITUrE. THIS IS THE FIrST EXHIBITION OF ITS KIND SINCE 1955. THE EXHIBITION INCLUDES A HUNDrED Or SO WOrKS owned by some of the wealthiest art-lovers of the time, including the royal family and its entourage, aristocrats and financiers, and illustrates the revolution in furniture-making that took place in the th18 century.