Tapestry wall decoration - Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Maincy/FR)
Tapestry wall decoration part of the Interior design by Charles Le Brun. One of the huge highly detailed tapestries in the castle. Originally the castle was decorated with 120 of them, most of them made in the region. At first the château was lavish, refined and dazzling to behold. But Jean-Baptiste Colbert led the king to believe that the new property of his superintendent of finances Fouquet was funded by the misappropriation of public funds. Fouquet was arrested and imprisoned for life and Vaux-le-Vicomte was placed under sequestration. The king seized, confiscated or purchased 120 tapestries, the statues and all the orange trees from Vaux-le-Vicomte. He then sent the team of artists (Le Vau, Le Nôtre and Le Brun) to design what would be a much larger project than Vaux-le-Vicomte, the palace and gardens of Versailles.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Tapestry wall decoration - Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Maincy/FR)
Tapestry wall decoration part of the Interior design by Charles Le Brun. One of the huge highly detailed tapestries in the castle. Originally the castle was decorated with 120 of them, most of them made in the region. At first the château was lavish, refined and dazzling to behold. But Jean-Baptiste Colbert led the king to believe that the new property of his superintendent of finances Fouquet was funded by the misappropriation of public funds. Fouquet was arrested and imprisoned for life and Vaux-le-Vicomte was placed under sequestration. The king seized, confiscated or purchased 120 tapestries, the statues and all the orange trees from Vaux-le-Vicomte. He then sent the team of artists (Le Vau, Le Nôtre and Le Brun) to design what would be a much larger project than Vaux-le-Vicomte, the palace and gardens of Versailles.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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About Pixels - #interior #design #tapestry - #VLV #Maincy #FR