François Mansart
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects
- Curriculum: French History, 17th Century European History
Article abstract: Mansart is generally recognized, along with Louis Le Vau, as one of the two greatest French architects of the seventeenth century and is credited with reviving classicism in French architecture while retaining enough vestiges of the prevailing Gothic to produce buildings that were truly unique.
Early Life
In François Mansart’s day, people who wanted to be architects did not go to school to learn their profession. Rather, they apprenticed to people in the building trades, who were the designers of most new buildings. Mansart was born...
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