Vaux-le-Vicomte

Related person
Kyu ho Chun (designer)
Date
2005
Location
Europe->France->Île-de-France, Région->Vaux-le-Vicomte, Château de
Description
The Chateau, near Melun, was built 1657-1661 by Louis Le Vau for Nicolas Fouquet, finance minister to Louis XIV; it is considered a masterpiece of French Baroque residential architecture; the gardens designed by Andre Le Notre was a prototype for the gardens at Versailles.

Keywords: France, French, Renaissance, Baroque, Seine-et-Marne, Melun.
Style/Period
17th Century (1600 - 1699 CE)
Baroque
Renaissance
Material
grasses
shrubs
trees
water
Source
Rogers, E.B. (2001). Landscape design: a cultural and architectural history. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p.170, Fig. 5.3