期刊名称：Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles
印刷版ISSN：1958-9271
出版年度：2008
页码：1
DOI：https://doi.org/10.4000/crcv.992
出版社：Centre de recherche du château de Versailles
摘要：One hundred and fifty-six statues stand on the façades of the palace and around the Royal Chapel. They constitute four groups, belonging to four different periods, and showing different ways of carving according to the period they were created, and also depending on the degree of freedom given to each sculptor. For the statues on the Central Building (1670–72), the Petite Academie and Charles Perrault certainly dictated the subjects, but left the artists with a great liberty in their interpretation. The statues on the Marble Courtyard and the South Wing, 1678–82, are definitely classical and their iconography comes from sketches provided by Charles Le Brun. From 1684, sculptors were under the direction of Pierre Mignard — the statues on the North Wing, 1687–88, which are of a lighter character, show his influence. The statues on the Royal Chapel, 1707–09, created under the direction of Robert de Cotte, were carved with great artistic liberty, in a manner sometimes more rococo, sometimes more baroque.
