THE STYLE OF LOUIS XIV. 



297 



283. 



DESIGN FOR CEILING, BY J. LE PAUTRE, WITH ALTERNATIVE 

 TREATMENTS. 



extensively in decoration and were introduced in small sheets in the 

 wall-panelling and in or above chimney-pieces. The ceiling (Figs. 283, 

 296, and 306) is flat, coved, domed, or of barrel form, or shows some 

 combination of these types. It springs from a bold cornice . clearly 

 marking the top of the wall. It is heavily coffered, or divided up 

 by enriched bands into geometrical painted compartments, often it 

 resolves itself into a frame round a large central compartment, painted 

 according to barocco practice to represent a vista of architectural or 

 aerial perspective. The angles, spandrils, and other portions of the 

 ceiling are often enriched like all the principal features of the room 

 with figures modelled in the round. 



Examples of Louis XIV. decoration outside the royal palaces are to 

 be seen at Paris in the Hotels de Gruyn (later Lauzun and Pimodan), 

 and Lambert-de-Thorigny in the He St Louis, and the galleries of the 

 Bibliotheque Nationale, the chateaux of Vaux-le-Vicomte, and of Jean 

 d'Heurs, the Palais des Etats at Rennes, and Dijon. 



CHARACTER OF GARDEN DESIGN. The way in which the " Grand 

 Manner " affected garden design is very characteristic. Before the reign 

 of Louis XIV. the garden had consisted of at most a few acres in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the house, and usually on one side of it 

 Only, and the main approaches were sometimes marked by avenues. 

 The entire park, vast expanses of forest were now included and treated 

 as integral parts in the design. The advance introduced by du Perac 



