Vaux-le-Vicomte

The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a château located in Maincy, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built in the Baroque style, during the 17th century (1658–1661), for Nicolas Fouquet, the then superintendant of finances of Louis XIV.

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Château - Maincy - Seine-et-Marne - Département - France - Baroque style - 1658 - 1661 - Nicolas Fouquet - Louis XIV

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Vaux-le-Vicomte was in many ways the most important work built in Europe before Louis XIV assumed personal control of the government. Here, together with the architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape gardener André le Nôtre and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked on a large-scale project for the first time. Their collaboration marked the beginning of a new order: the "Magnificent Manner," involving a system of collective work, and could be applied to the creation of an entire landscape.

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Louis Le Vau - Landscape gardener - André le Nôtre - Charles Le Brun - Landscape

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Le Nôtre's garden was the dominant structure of the great complex. The château rises on an elevated platform, opened in the middle of the woods, and marks the border between unequal spaces, treated in a different way.

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