Hotel carnavalet pierre lescot biography
Alternative Titles
Musee Carnavalet (Musee de l'Histoire de Paris)
Hôtel de Ligneris
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/101737Date
1546Description
Frontal view of courtyard elevation opposite the entrance; A work attributed to Lescot, in collaboration with Goujon, is the Hôtel Carnavalet (ca. 1545-1550) in Paris, subsequently altered three times. This was originally built for a a magistrate associated with the Lescot family. A former name is the the Hôtel de Ligneris. It is now the Musee Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum). The Hôtel Carnavalet was redone in 1655 by Francois Mansart, for Madame De Sevigne, who lived here from 1677 to 1696. In this period (1655-1661) Van Opstal sculpted the stone reliefs on the first storey (still in situ). The 17th century adjoining Hôtel le Peletier (le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau) was added to the museum in 1989 to contain the larger part of the museum's 20th century interiors. Additional renovations were made in 2000 and the 17th century orangery of the Hôtel le Peletier was restored. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/16/2008)
Type of Work
hôtel (town house); museumSubject
architectural exteriors, decorative arts, domestic life, genre, Art museums, decorative arts museum, city history museum, orangerie, courtyard gardens, Renaissance
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Show full item recordMusée Carnavalet
History Museum, Art museum, Historic site in Paris, France
The Musée Carnavalet (French pronunciation:[myzekaʁnavalɛ]) in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. On the advice of Baron Haussmann, the civil servant who transformed Paris in the latter half of the 19th century, the Hôtel Carnavalet was purchased by the Municipal Council of Paris in 1866; it was opened to the public in 1880. By the latter part of the 20th century, the museum was full to capacity. The Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau was annexed to the Carnavalet and opened to the public in 1989.
The building, an historic monument from the 16th century, contains furnished rooms from different periods of Paris history, historic objects, and a very large collection of paintings of Paris life; it features works by artists including Joos Van Cleve, Frans Pourbus the Younger, Jacques-Louis David, Hippolyte Lecomte, François Gérard, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Étienne Aubry, to Tsuguharu Foujita, Louis Béroud, Jean Béraud, Carolus Duran, Jean-Louis Forain, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Henri Gervex, Alfred Stevens, Paul Signac, and Simon-Auguste. They depict the city's history and development, and its notable characters.
Carnavalet Museum is one of the 14 City of Paris's museums that have been incorporated since January 1, 2013, in the public institution Paris Musées. In October 2016, the museum was closed to the public for a major renovation. It reopened in 2021 with new rooms and galleries and an expanded collection.
History
The land on which the museum stands was purchased in 1544 by Jacques de Ligneris, the president of the Parlement of Paris, who commissioned the architects Pierre Lescot and Jean Goujon to build a townhouse. In 1548, Lescot and Goujon were taken away from the project to the Useful Information about Lescot, Pierre Pierre Lescot was born in Paris in 1510. He was a French architect of the French Renaissance. He is famous for having initiated a classical architectural style "à la française" (French style), in particular by renovating the façade of the Louvre Palace. Despite Le Louvre being a very famous building, the architects of this work such as Pierre Lescot are not so famous. Therefore, in this article we tell the life and work of Pierre Lescot, the project manager of Le Louvre. Unlike his contemporary Philibert Delorme, a French architect, Pierre Lescot did not come from a family of masons, but from a ruling family. His father, also named Pierre Lescot, was the lord of Lissy a small commune near Paris. He was also attorney general at the Cour des aides (old institution that governs tax disputes), until his death he was also a councilor of the city of Paris. The son Pierre Lescot has also followed the path of law. In fact, he has a bachelor's degree in law. But the future architect of the Louvre is interested in art, not law. And he is talented. Pierre de Ronsard important French poet of the 16th century and friend of the architect has written about Pierre Lescot that he excelled in painting, drawing, mathematics and architecture. His great artistic abilities probably led him to the court of Francis I, a king who loved artists and painters very much, and with whom he surrounded himself. Pierre Lescot died in 1578. Although Pierre Lescot is known for his work of Le Louvre, he has created other works. For example, with the sculptor Goujon he made the fountain "La Fontaine des Innocents" in Paris. And they collaborated again through the project of Le Louvre. In 1546 the ruler, Francis I, chose him as the architect of the Louvre for which he built the southwest corner of the present Cour Carrée. The king wanted a palace in the style of the Italian Renai Inner courtyard, close-up of arch in colonnade, Pavillon de Choiseul; A work attributed to Lescot, in collaboration with Goujon, is the Hôtel Carnavalet (ca. 1545-1550) in Paris, subsequently altered three times. This was originally built for a a magistrate associated with the Lescot family. A former name is the the Hôtel de Ligneris. It is now the Musee Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum). The Hôtel Carnavalet was redone in 1655 by Francois Mansart, for Madame De Sevigne, who lived here from 1677 to 1696. In this period (1655-1661) Van Opstal sculpted the stone reliefs on the first storey (still in situ). The 17th century adjoining Hôtel le Peletier (le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau) was added to the museum in 1989 to contain the larger part of the museum's 20th century interiors. Additional renovations were made in 2000 and the 17th century orangery of the Hôtel le Peletier was restored. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/16/2008) Pierre Lescot (1546 - 1578)
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