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)
- 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
- west elevation, elevations
- [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
- Documentation Type
- elevations
- 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, CLXI.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- creator
- Gittard, Daniel
- Le Vau, Louis
- Servandoni Giovanni Niccolò
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
Daniel Gittard (French architect, 1625-1686), Louis Le Vau (French architect, 1612-1670), and Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (Italian architect, 1695-1766), “Saint-Sulpice”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 14, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/18391