Louis le vau biography of barack
Louis Le Vau was a French Baroque architect, who worked for Louis XIV of France.!
Le Vau was Louis XIV's First Architect from until his death and disgrace in
Biography
French architect. He was the son and pupil of the stone mason Louis Le Vau (d. 1661). He began his career in the 1630s, designing row houses and "hôtels particuliers" on the Ile Saint-Louis, Paris.
He was influenced by Italian architecture, including the designs of Bernini and Pietro da Cortona).
In 1654 he designed new wings and a colonnade for the Louvre; in the same year he was appointed first architect to King Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715).
In 1656, he began his architectural masterpiece, the Château Vaux-le-Vicomte, owned by France's wealthy finance minister Nicolas Fouquet (1615-80).
In 1661, in Paris, Le Vau and Le Brun began the redesign of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, after which, in 1665, Le Vau collaborated with Perrault to design the famous east façade of the Louvre (1665-74) in a style which anticipated 18th century Neoclassical architecture.
At the same time, Le Vau (assisted by François d'Orbay) was involved in the design of the College des