Talk:Vaux-le-Vicomte

Vaux - Name
What exactly does the name "Vaux-le-Vicomte" mean? I think it means "Viscount of Vaux" but want to check before posting.
 * No, it means "Vaux-of-the-Viscount" --Wetman (talk) 05:48, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Vaux - Viscount of Vaux
Does anyone know which Vaux he was Viscount of? I have linked to the most likely answer (Vaux, Allier based on the geography, but there are three other Vaux's which are contenders, although it is far fetched: Vaux, in the Haute-Garonne département Vaux, in the Moselle département Vaux, in the Vienne département ([[Vaux, Vienne)

I'm am positive something or some event took place in the last year or so at Vaux-le-Vicomte. Does anyone know?

Cleanup tag
This article is in desperate need of attention. It starts abruptly, fails to establish what or where the subject is, suddenly introduces apparently important people by their surnames, with no explanation. In fact it reads as though it's been cut-and-pasted from the middle of other pieces, the bits connected by someone whose first language isn't English. If no-one comes to its aid, I'll have a go myself, but it requires either knowledge of the subject or considerable research.

Actually, I've just found at least one of the sources:. I'm not sure that it shouldn't get a copyvio tag. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 20:13, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Discussion of Anamorphosis Abscondita
I believe some of this discussion has been written by an author working in their second language. I've made a couple of corrections, most importantly that the reflecting pools are 'widened' rather than 'lengthened' so as to appear closer to the viewer. I can't fathom at all how lengthening the pools would make them appear closer, but widening them between the points closest to and furthest away from the viewer would cause a forced perspective, and I believe this is the correct description (having been there!). Cerireid (talk) 14:54, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Took out link
I took out the external link to "Google Earth Hacks". It adds nothing. And rew D alby 12:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 09:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Anamorphosis abscondita 2
The 2 superscripted questions in the last sentence of this section are rather unnecessary and misleading - the existing text is fine as it stands.Paulhummerman (talk) 01:55, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Piano nobile
User:Lesdmark has changed the architectural term piano nobile ("noble floor") to French premier étage (first floor). The terms are not synonymous. The linked article gives the French equivalent bel étage, but that term does not appear in the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, whereas piano nobile does. Ayers (whose book The Architecture of Paris is cited) uses piano nobile in his article on Vaux-le-Vicomte, an article which otherwise has many instances of French architectural terms. Besides, the point he is making is the piano nobile in this instance is on the ground floor rather than the more traditional first floor. Robert.Allen (talk) 22:17, 16 February 2023 (UTC)