If asked what is one of the reasons, I love walking around the streets of Paris so much, I would have to admit it’s the architecture. Rues de Paris or (a street in Paris, France ) is featured here. The amount of talent required to build such magnificent structures and have them withstand time and be subjected to literally hundreds of years and still serve a useful purpose is nothing short of amazing to me. It speaks highly of the men who built it and the men who designed them all. Here pictured is a typical urban residential street in Paris. I woke up to fetch the morning paper and grab a croissant before I headed off to work and could not help but appreciate the detail of the French Baroque style. Another reason is the culture, the people and the amazing way a city that holds 53 million inhabitants can still give you a feeling of a sense of belonging.
Paris France – French Baroque architecture is the name given to the French Architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–43),Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–74). Probably the most accomplished formulator of the new manner was François Mansart, a tireless perfectionist credited with introducing the full Baroque to France.
Background Behind the Style
In his design for Château de Maisons (1642), Mansart succeeded in reconciling academic and baroque approaches, while demonstrating respect for the gothic-inherited idiosyncrasies of the French tradition. Maisons-Laffitte illustrates the ongoing transition from the post-medieval chateaux of the sixteenth century to the villa-like country houses of the eighteenth. The structure is strictly symmetrical, with an order applied to each story, mostly in pilaster form. The frontispiece, crowned with a separate aggrandized roof, is infused with remarkable plasticity and the whole ensemble reads like a three-dimensional whole. Mansart’s structures are stripped of overblown decorative effects, so typical of contemporary Rome. Italian Baroque influence is muted and relegated to the field of decorative ornamentation.