Renaissance in France Flashcards by Coleen Astilla

7 Architectural Character of renaissance arch in france

Picturesque
Gothic verticality
Civic design
Garden planning
Dormer window
Mansard roof
Rococo/Rocaille Style (Extreme Baroque Style)

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also called Extreme Baroque Style

Rococo/Rocaille Style

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A style of interiors characterized by profuse decoration

Rococo/Rocaille Style

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4 Features of Rococo/Rocaille

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

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Special forte of Juste Aurele Meissonier

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.

CHATEAU DE BLOIS

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by Domenico de Cortona

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

CHATEAU DE CHENONCEAUX

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

CHATEAU L’AZAY-LE RIDEAU

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has continuous cornices and uninterrupted dormers and designed by Sebastiano Serlio

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.

PALAIS DE FONTAINEBLEAU

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is one of the largest French royal chateau.

PALAIS DE FONTAINEBLEU

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

PALAIS DE LOUVRE (Museo de Louvre)

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

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

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.

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.

PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG

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

PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG

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

CHATEAU DE MAISONS

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

CHATEAU DE BALLEROY

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

PALAIS DE VERSAILLES

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

PALAIS DE VERSAILLES

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

GALERIE DES GLACES” (Hall of Mirrors)

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.

Formal gardens at PALAIS DE VERSAILLES

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

LE PETIT TRIANON

is an early Renaissance municipal architecture

\HOTEL DE VILLE, Beaugency

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

HOTEL DE SULLY

by Hugues Sambin is abundant in surface renaissance details

MAISON MILSAND

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

17. HOTEL D’ ASSEZAT

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

18. PLACE STANISLAS

is the largest square in Paris

20. PLACE DELA CONCORDE

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

21. ARC DE TRIOMPHE

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

ST. GERVAIS

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

23. ST. PAUL AND S. LOUIS

by Lemercier with superimposed orders.

24. CHURCH OF THE SORBONNE, Paris

by Francois Mansart has a projecting portal with orders. It has a dome made by Lemercier

25. CHURCH OF VAL DE GRACE, Paris

26. 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.

ST. SULPICE

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

DOME DES INVALIDES

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

The interior dome of Des Invalides

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.

MADELEINE CHURCH

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.

PANTHEON