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Life of JEAN I MAROT


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  Engraver and architect, part of a French family of artists of Netherlandish origin. Jean Marot I, son of Girard Marot, a cabinetmaker, worked as engraver and architect; little remains of his architectural projects, but his engravings of architectural designs, highly regarded in his lifetime, have become one of the most important sources for an understanding of French architecture before the great building campaigns of Louis XIV. One of his brothers, Jean-Baptiste Marot (b. 1632), appears to have been a painter. One of Jean Marot s own sons, Daniel Marot I, was a successful engraver in Paris, until anti-Protestant legislation obliged him to emigrate to the Netherlands, where he became principal designer to William of Orange; Jean Marot s other son, Jean Marot II, probably worked with his father as an engraver and, later, as an architect of the Btiments du Roi in Nantes and Paris between 1686 and 1702. Daniel Marot s son, Daniel Marot II, worked as a decorative painter on a number of his father s projects.
  Jean Marot I is celebrated for his engravings of architectural views. As a young man, he worked for Israël Silvestre, supplying his publications with architectural engravings, while Silvestre himself engraved the landscapes and Jean Le Pautre was responsible for some of the figures. Marot also produced a book with 44 plates after Vitruvius, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Palladio and Philibert de L Orme. The first of his major works, the Recueil des plans, profils, et lvations de plusieurs palais, chasteaux, glises, spultures, grotes et hostels btis dans Paris, known as the Petit Marot, is undated, but internal evidence suggests it was produced between 1654 and 1660. The 116 plates include views of the then most important buildings in Paris, such as the Palais du Luxembourg and the Hôtel de Liancourt by Salomon de Brosse; the Hôtel Carnavalet by Pierre Lescot and Franois Mansart; the Hôtel de Jars by Mansart; and the Hôtel de Bretonvilliers by Louis Le Vau. Other engravings depict various chteaux, such as the chteau of Maisons-Lafitte by Mansart, the chteau of Coulommiers-en-Brie by Brosse, and the chteau of Richelieu by Jacques Lemercier. Also included are designs, thought to be Marot s own, for the faade of a church, the gate of a city and a tomb.
  
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The Ceremonial Entry of Louis XIV and Marie-Th�r�se into Paris in 1660
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The Fa�ade of the Church of the Feuillants, Paris
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Portal of the Church of the Feuillants Monastery
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View and Perspective of the H�tel de Liancourt
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Bernini's scheme for the Louvre
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The Ch�teau de Richelieu
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H�tel Tambonneau, Paris
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H�tel de la Vrill�re, Paris
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