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Renaissance in France Flashcards

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7 Architectural Character of renaissance arch in france

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  1. Picturesque
  2. Gothic verticality
  3. Civic design
  4. Garden planning
  5. Dormer window
  6. Mansard roof
  7. Rococo/Rocaille Style (Extreme Baroque Style)
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also called Extreme Baroque Style

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Rococo/Rocaille Style

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A style of interiors characterized by profuse decoration

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Rococo/Rocaille Style

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4 Features of Rococo/Rocaille

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i. Rock-like forms
ii. Scrolls and curves
iii. Asymmetrical arabesque
iv. Scalloped Shellwork

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Special forte of Juste Aurele Meissonier

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Rococo/Rocaille Style

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was the residence of several French kings. From right to left: the Louis XII Gothic flamboyant wing, the medieval Gothic castle the Francois I Renaissance wing and the Gaston of Orleans classic wing.

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CHATEAU DE BLOIS

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by Domenico de Cortona

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  1. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD
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is a mixture of late Gothic and Renaissance. It is the most visited chateau in France. designed by Philibert de L’Orme

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CHATEAU DE CHENONCEAUX

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was built on an island with same characteristics as that of Chenonceaux

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  1. CHATEAU L’AZAY-LE RIDEAU
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has continuous cornices and uninterrupted dormers and designed by Sebastiano Serlio

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ANCY-LE-FRANC, BURGUNDY. ANCY-LE-FRANC

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by Gilles Le Breton depends for its attraction on the courts, formal gardens, terraces, lakes and radiating vistas.

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  1. PALAIS DE FONTAINEBLEAU
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is one of the largest French royal chateau.

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PALAIS DE FONTAINEBLEU

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by Pierre Lescot is one of the most imposing palaces in Europe. occupies a 45-acre property.

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PALAIS DE LOUVRE (Museo de Louvre)

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he made the glass pyramid of PALAIS DE LOUVRE (Museo de Louvre)

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I.M. Pei

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Many of the world’s greatest works of art are housed in its galleries like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

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PALAIS DE LOUVRE (Museo de Louvre)

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by Philibert de L’Orme is part of the Louvre built during the Napoleonic period.

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  1. PALAIS DES TUILERIES (Pavilion de Marsan)
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Designed by Salomon de Brosse. anticipates the formalized Baroque design that typified later 17th-century French Renaissance architecture.

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PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG

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was modeled after Palazzo Pitti in Florence. has a 25-hectare green parterre gravel and lawn with statues and basins of water

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PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG

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by Francois Mansart is a prime example of French Baroque. stood on a rectangular platform with a dry moat.

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CHATEAU DE MAISONS

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is the earliest surviving work of Francois Mansart, father of classical revival in France.

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CHATEAU DE BALLEROY

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  1. Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin Mansart built this for Louis XIV. The palace was bilt with irresponsible extravagance.
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PALAIS DE VERSAILLES

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started as a small royal hunting lodge.is unparalleled in its magnificence and spendor

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PALAIS DE VERSAILLES

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was done by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. It has a lavish interior of marble and gold work.

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GALERIE DES GLACES” (Hall of Mirrors)

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represent the finest extant example of French garden design. designed by André Le Nötre, are laid cut in broad avenues lined with trees, shrubs, and groups of sculpture.

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Formal gardens at PALAIS DE VERSAILLES

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Ange-Jacques Gabriel did Versailles. It was a favorite retreat of Marie Antoinette queen of France and wife of King Louis XVI.

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LE PETIT TRIANON

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is an early Renaissance municipal architecture

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\HOTEL DE VILLE, Beaugency

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is a private mansion in the Louis Xiii style designed by Jean Androuet du Cerceau

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HOTEL DE SULLY

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by Hugues Sambin is abundant in surface renaissance details

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MAISON MILSAND

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by Nicolas Bachelier of tiered paired columns with shallow windowed arcades.

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  1. HOTEL D’ ASSEZAT
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is a large pedestrianized square with late Baroque civic buildings. The Fountain and Gilded Wrought Iron Gates at Place Stanislas is by Jean Lamour

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  1. PLACE STANISLAS
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is the largest square in Paris

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  1. PLACE DELA CONCORDE
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is the 2nd largest triumphal arch in the world. It was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus

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  1. ARC DE TRIOMPHE
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has the earliest wholly classical façade by Salomon de Brosse with 3 tiers of coupled columns of doric, ionic and Corinthian. is a fine example of French Baroque style

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ST. GERVAIS

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by Francois Durand is a Baroque church with 3 tiers of orders.

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  1. ST. PAUL AND S. LOUIS
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by Lemercier with superimposed orders.

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  1. CHURCH OF THE SORBONNE, Paris
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by Francois Mansart has a projecting portal with orders. It has a dome made by Lemercier

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  1. CHURCH OF VAL DE GRACE, Paris
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  1. Italian architect Giovanni Servandori with a 2-storey narthex designed the façade of this. The faced is rather plain for a church of the flamboyant Baroque period.
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ST. SULPICE

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It is the burial site for many of France’s distinguished military figures, the most notable being Napoleon Bonaparte

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DOME DES INVALIDES

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was painted by French painter Charles de La Fosse and sits precisely above Napoleon’s tomb

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The interior dome of Des Invalides

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by Pierre-Alexander Vignon was built to the glory of Napoleon’s army. is built in the Neo-Classical style and was inspired by the Maison Carrèe at Nimes, one of the best preserved of all Roman temples.

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MADELEINE CHURCH

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meaning “Every God” (formerly Church of S. Genevieve) by Pierre-Alexander Vignon now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens. is an early example of neoclassicism with façade modeled on the Pantheon in Rome surmounted by a dome.

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PANTHEON

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