The architecture of the Renaissance in France; a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830 (1911)
of always doingbetter. Le Vau.—Some of the early work of his younger contemporary,Louis Le Vau or Le Veau (1612-70), who became one of the chiefarchitects of Louis XIV., still belong to the Louis XIIL style. SECULAR ARCHITECTURE. The Louvre and Tuileries. — Henry IV. was almost as enthusi-astic a… … Louvre Grande Galerie : Elevation. From Blondel. No Scale. been thoroughly disentangled. The upper storeys of the eastern halfof the Grande Galerie and possibly those of the Petite Galerie seemto have been carried out under Louis Metezeau. Du Perac was prob-ably the architect of the western half of…
