François Mansart
1598
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1666
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Grand Siècle
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
occupation: architect
student of: Salomon de Brosse
François Mansart (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa mɑ̃saʁ]; 23 January 1598 – 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance". Mansart, as he is generally known, popularized the mansard roof, a four-sided, double slope gambrel roof punctuated with windows on the steeper lower slope which created additional habitable space in the garrets. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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