Lecture 5 An awe-inspiring and authoritative vision

Giacomo da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta, Il Gesù Rome, Italy, 1568, façade: 1575-1584.

Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy, 1638-1641

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, piazza and colonnade for Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1656- 1667

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, designs for the Louvre, 1664 (first project), 1665 (second project), 1665 (third and fourth projects, designed during Bernini’s stay in Paris)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Bust of Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1665

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV, marble, 1685, modified by François Girardon to represent Mettius Curtius

Claude Perrault, Louis Le Vau, and Charles Le Brun, east façade of the Louvre, Paris, France, 1667- 1670

Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Charles Le Brun, and André Le Nôtre, palace and gardens at Versailles, begun 1669

Paul Fréart de Chantelou, Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini’s Visit to France [in 1665]. Ludovic Lalanne discovered a manuscript copy of Chantelou’s diary in the library of the Institut de France and published a transcript as a series of articles in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts from 1877-1884. The English translation was completed by Margery Corbett Ashby and published in 1985.

Heinrich Wölfflin, Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Das Problem der Stilentwicklung in der neueren Kunst, Munich, 1915. (First published in the English translation by M. D. Hottinger, as Principles of Art History. The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art, New York, 1929).