Invalides: Église du Dome (Paris, France) : Crypt of Napoleon, detail of one of the statues ringing the sarcophagus

Creator:

Mansart, Jules Hardouin, 1646-1708

Published/Created:

Paris, Île-de-France, France
1676-1735 ; 1840-1861 (alteration)

Physical Description:

100 m (height)

Date Depicted:

ca. 1990's
1500 AD - 1699 AD
1700 AD - 1799 AD

Materials:

stone

Notes:

In 1676 he was commissioned to build the church of the Hôtel des Invalides, after Libéral Bruand, who designed the rest of the complex, failed to produce a satisfactory scheme. For this almost monastic establishment for disabled soldiers, Hardouin Mansart created a bipartite building: the first part [Église St-Louis], a nine-bay nave for the pensioners, has a barrel vault and side aisles with tribunes opening through flattened arches, following 17th-century French models. The second part, beyond, is the 'great church', the Dôme, in the form of a Greek cross inscribed in a square and vaulted by a dome on a drum--a plan that Hardouin Mansart borrowed from his great-uncle's [François] designs for the 'rotunda' Bourbon chapel at Saint-Denis Abbey. The exterior of the church was conceived to give maximum emphasis to the dome, which dominates all the other buildings of the Invalides as well as the church itself. This was achieved by the insertion of an attic storey over the drum and by the graceful silhouette of the outer dome, with its extremely tall lantern and crowning obelisk, together reaching more than 100 m above the ground. The interior was renovated from 1840-1861; Napoleon's body was brought back from Saint Helena in 1840.

Variant Titles:

Dôme des Invalides

Topics:

Architecture -- France -- 17th century -- (YVRC)
Architecture -- France -- 18th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Baroque
Eighteenth century

Culture:

French

Accession Number:

1A2-F-P-I-2-G5

Genre:

architecture (AAT)
containers: coffins: sarcophagi (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
Tools, Equipment & Instruments

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

architectural exteriors; military; war; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 construction building divisions; rooms and spaces; religious building spaces; chapels (rooms or structures); sepulchral chapels; bu

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Base Collection

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
ca. 1990's

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4152

OID:

10093670

PID:

digcoll:1849812