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CUVILLES, FRANCOIS DE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 677 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CUVILLES, See also:FRANCOIS DE (1698-c. 1767); See also:French architect and engraver. He helped to carry the French See also:rococo See also:taste to Germany—he was summoned about i 720 to See also:Cologne by the elector See also:James See also:Clement; in 1738 he became architect to the elector of See also:Bavaria, and afterwards occupied the same position towards the See also:emperor See also:Charles VII. His See also:style, while essentially thin, is often painfully elaborate and bizarre. He designed mirrors and consoles, balustrades for staircases, ceilings and fireplaces, and in See also:furniture, beds and commodes especially. He also laid out parks and gardens. He wrote several See also:treatises on See also:artistic and decorative subjects, which were edited by his son, Francois de Cuvilles the younger, who succeeded his See also:father at the See also:court of See also:Munich.

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