Saint-Sulpice

Item

Title
Saint-Sulpice
Alternative Title
Église Saint-Sulpice
Church of St. Sulpice
S. Sulpice
Creator
Daniel Gittard (French architect, 1625-1686)
Louis Le Vau (French architect, 1612-1670)
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (Italian architect, 1695-1766)
Drafter
Oppenord, Gilles-Marie (French designer, 1672-1742)
City
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Address
Place Saint-Sulpice
Location
France
Building Creation Date
ca. 1646-1745 (creation)
Century
17th century
18th century
Description
cross section, sections
[Saint-Sulpice is the second largest church in Paris, following Notre-Dame.] Gittard moved to Paris, buying an architect's commission in the Bâtiments du Roi as early as 1655
throughout his life he was to engage in building- and property-speculation in the parish of St Sulpice as did Louis and François Le Vau on the Ile Saint-Louis. His plans for the huge new church of St Sulpice were preferred to those of Louis Le Vau: Gittard supplied the general design and built the sanctuary, ambulatory, apsidal chapels, transept and north portal (1670-1678), after which work was suspended for lack of funds. The nave and side-chapels were built in 1719-1745 by Gilles-Marie Oppenord and Giovanni Servandoni, to Gittard's designs.
Techniques
renderings (drawings)
Classification
Architectural Documentation
Building Type
churches
religious buildings
Documentation Type
sections
Style/Period
Neoclassical
Cultural Context
French
Subject
architectural exteriors
architectural interiors
Source
Blomfield Reginald Theodore, Sir. A History of French Architecture from the Death of Mazarin till the Death of Louis XV. 1. London: G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1921, CXLVI.
Access Rights
Public Domain
creator
Gittard, Daniel
Le Vau, Louis
Servandoni Giovanni Niccolò
Item sets
Architecture Illustrations
Media
https://www.myweb.ttu.edu/saschuma/31295001042042_CXLVI.jpg

Daniel Gittard (French architect, 1625-1686), Louis Le Vau (French architect, 1612-1670), and Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (Italian architect, 1695-1766), “Saint-Sulpice”, Arch Design Images, accessed November 15, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/archlib/item/18396