17 March
1628 birth of François Girardon
1974 death of Louis I. Kahn
2004 Louis I. Kahn in Ireland with St. Patrick
gallery 1999
colored plans
objective
1999.03.17
Re: urinal in a gallery
2000.03.17
DTM work
modern kitchen, etc.
2000.03.17
reminders
moving ahead
2002.03.17
Re: Has anyone seen whatever that thread was called??
2003.03.17 12:16
No U.N. architects allowed
2003.03.17 14:11
2003.03.17 15:45
29 years ago today
2003.03.17 20:41
you and your shadow
2003.03.17 22:53
17 March 1974
2005.03.17 13:16
Quondam's 10th Anniversary
2006.03.17 07:56
Complex Iconography and Contradictory Content in Architecture
2006.03.17 09:22
non-event cities
2006.03.17 11:37
Frank Lloyd Wright meets Vedic architecture
2006.03.17 14:12
2006.03.17 14:18
on Roman bath houses
2006.03.17 16:11
Are these vile and odious lies?
2006.03.17 16:44
2006.03.17 16:58
2006.03.17 17:02
Fashion Architecture Taste
2006.03.17 18:17
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Girardon, François
sculptor and architect ; b. March 17, 1628, at Troyes (Aube), France ; d. 1715.
Girardon was a pupil of François Anguier. He studied in Rome, and on his return became the favorite sculptor of Charles Lebrun. His earliest known work is the tomb of the Duke d'Epernon and his wife in a chapel of the church of Cadillac (Gironde, France). In 1690 Girardon contracted to build the great altar of the church of S. Jean-au-Marche in Troyes, which still exists. About 1699 he began the equestrian statue of Louis XIV which stood in the Place Louis le Grand (now Place Vendôme), and was melted down for cannon in the Revolution. Perhaps his most famous work is the monument of the Cardinal Richelieu in the church of Sorbonne, Paris. Many of his works are in the Garden of Versailles.
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