Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès

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Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès
Aix-en-Provence - Hotel Maurel de Ponteves - Tribunal de Commerce - 38 cours Mirabeau.JPG
General information
Type Hôtel particulier
Address 38, Cours Mirabeau
Town or city Aix-en-Provence
Country France
Construction started 1647
Completed 1651
Client Pierre Maurel
Design and construction
Architect Jean Lombard
Pierre Pavillon
Front door on the Cours Mirabeau. Aix-en-Provence - Hotel Maurel de Ponteves - Elevation de la facade.JPG
Front door on the Cours Mirabeau.

The Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès (a.k.a. Hôtel d'Espagnet) is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.

<i>Hôtel particulier</i> townhouse of a grand sort

An hôtel particulier is a townhouse of a grand sort, comparable to the British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary maison (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it would always be located entre cour et jardin: between the cour d'honneur and the garden behind. There are hôtels particuliers in many large cities in France.

Aix-en-Provence Subprefecture and commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur, France

Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a city-commune in the south of France, about 30 km (19 mi) north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix numbers approximately 143,000. Its inhabitants are called Aixois or, less commonly, Aquisextains.

Bouches-du-Rhône Department of France in Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

Bouches-du-Rhône is a department in Southern France named after the mouth of the river Rhône. It is the most populous department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region with 2,019,717 inhabitants in 2016; it has an area of 5,087 km2 (1,964 sq mi). Its INSEE and postal code is 13. Marseille is Bouches-du-Rhône's largest city and prefecture.

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Location

The hotel is located at 38 on the Cours Mirabeau in the centre of Aix-en-Provence. [1] [2] [3]

Cours Mirabeau street in Aix-en-Provence

The Cours Mirabeau is a wide thoroughfare in Aix-en-Provence, France.

History

The hotel was one of the first hotels to be built in the Quartier Mazarin. [1] Its construction started in 1647, and it was only completed four years later, in 1651. [1] [2] It was designed by architects Jean Lombard and Pierre Pavillon. [1] [2] They combined the architectural styles of mannerism and Baroque architecture. [2]

Pierre Pavillon (1612-1670) was a French architect and sculptor.

Baroque architecture building style of the Baroque era

Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity. Common features of Baroque architecture included gigantism of proportions; a large open central space where everyone could see the altar; twisting columns, theatrical effects, including light coming from a cupola above; dramatic interior effects created with bronze and gilding; clusters of sculpted angels and other figures high overhead; and an extensive use of trompe-l'oeil, also called "quadratura," with painted architectural details and figures on the walls and ceiling, to increase the dramatic and theatrical effect.

The first owner was Pierre Maurel, a prosperous cloth merchant who purchased the marquisate of Pontevès. [1] [2] [4]

Pontevès Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur, France

Pontevès is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Heritage significance

It has been listed as a "monument historique" since February 08, 1990. [3]

<i>Monument historique</i> protected French building as a Historical Monument (use « classified Historical Monument » and « inscribed Historical Monument »)

Monument historique is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, garden, bridge, or other structure, because of their importance to France's architectural and historical cultural heritage. Both public and privately owned structures may be listed in this way, as well as also movable objects. As of 2012 there were 44,236 monuments listed.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Culture 13: Hôtel Maurel de Pontèves
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 City of Aix-en-Provence: Hôtel Maurel de Pontèves dit d'Espagnet
  3. 1 2 French Ministry of Culture
  4. ↑ Jean-Paul Labourdette, Dominique Auzias, Olivia Ferrandino, Olivier Gressot, Aix-en-Provence, Paris: Le Petit Futé, 2010, p. 28

Coordinates: 43°31′37″N5°27′00″E / 43.5269°N 5.4499°E / 43.5269; 5.4499

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