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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- ISSN
- 1943-2186
- eISSN
- 1460-1176
- DOI
- 10.1080/14601170903411275
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Abstract
robert w. berger Precious information about hydraulic displays in the garden of Versailles during the from November 1669 to June 1672, but the work must have been completed by early years of Louis XIV’s personal reign is provided by inventories drawn up by the June 1671, when the metal forms began to be gilded and bronzed. The quatrefoil 1 10 hydraulic engineer Denis Jolly. These documents — covering the second half of basin was replaced in 1684–86 by the present circular one of marble. 1666 and the year 1667 — mention the installation of several inexpensive, tempor- The Pyramid Fountain stands about 3.80 m high, resting on a stone podium ary arrangements of cast copper pipes that spouted water in various patterns. with markedly concave sides (figure 4A). Above this rise four superposed Sometime in 1666, a device with nine large pipes producing ‘the effect of the marble basins of diminishing sizes, supported by a central stone vertical great pyramid of water’ was placed in the Rondeau, the basin at the north end of the ‘column’ (largely hidden from view); the lowest basin is additionally sup- Petit Parc that was soon to receive the sculptures of the Dragon Fountain.
Journal
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis
Published: Aug 25, 2010