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)
cog-nised by Mazarin as a Royal Academyof Painters and Sculptors (1655) andColbert became its Chancellor (1661).Thus a blow was struck at an indepen-dent corporation, art became a dis-ciplined force and State control w-assecured over art education. Later onthe Academy of Inscriptions, whoseduty… … 262. Versailles : Door inSalon de lAbondance(1683). 272 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. So long as the Kings First Architect, Louis le Vau, lived, he hadcharge of virtually all the royal buildings and the functions of thecommittee were nominal, but on his death in 1670 no architect of…
