Resumen de L'ornement sculpté autour de 1700: le trophée d'église et la chapelle royale de Versailles
The church trophy first appeared as a religious sculpted ornament around 1700. The church trophy, heir to the war trophy, was used for the first time in the church of Saint Paul in Paris by Jules-Hardouin Mansart. It was judged noncompatible with religious decoration by the Royal Academy of Architecture. However, after Mansart gained control of the Academy in 1699, the church trophy was again used in the wooden stalls of the cathedral of Sainte Croix in Orléans; it also constitutes the principal sculpted ornamentation of the royal chapel in Versailles. Indeed, the discovery of two archival elements for the royal chapel now confirm Mansart as director of its trophy decoration, an issue that was long unclear.
