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French Renaissance Architecture

The document summarizes Renaissance architecture in France, dividing it into three periods: the Early Period from 1494-1589 which combined Gothic and Renaissance features and was influenced by Gothic craftsmanship; the Classical Period from 1589-1715 which was notable for its dignity, sobriety, and restrained ornamentation; and the Late Period from 1715-1830 where domestic architecture became simpler with rounded interior corners. It then provides examples of prominent Renaissance architecture in France such as the Chateau de Blois, Chateau de Chambord designed by an Italian architect, the Louvre exhibiting stages of French Renaissance, and the Pantheon originally built as a church.

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French Renaissance Architecture

The document summarizes Renaissance architecture in France, dividing it into three periods: the Early Period from 1494-1589 which combined Gothic and Renaissance features and was influenced by Gothic craftsmanship; the Classical Period from 1589-1715 which was notable for its dignity, sobriety, and restrained ornamentation; and the Late Period from 1715-1830 where domestic architecture became simpler with rounded interior corners. It then provides examples of prominent Renaissance architecture in France such as the Chateau de Blois, Chateau de Chambord designed by an Italian architect, the Louvre exhibiting stages of French Renaissance, and the Pantheon originally built as a church.

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Renaissance

Architecture
IN FRANCE
Architectural Character
during French Renaissance Period
EARLY PERIOD

CLASSICAL PERIOD

LATE PERIOD

Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE


Architectural Character
The Early Period (1494-1589 to 16th century)
❑Combinations of Gothic and Renaissance features
❑French Renaissance adapted Gothic features like flying
buttresses and pinnacles
❑Principal building in France were castles
❑French Renaissance was influenced by traditional Gothic
craftsmanship
❑Salient features are picturesqueness and a tendency to Gothic
verticality
❑Early buildings in France were principally chateaux nobility
❑Influence of Rome was naturally less manifested in France

Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE


Architectural Character
Classical Period (1589-1715 to 17th century)

❑Notable for the dignity, sobriety and masculine quality


of its foremost Buildings.
❑Notable for clarity and simplicity of elements
❑Ornaments are coarse, vigorous and reasonably
restrained

Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE


Architectural Character
Late Period (1715-1830 to 18th century)

❑Particularly marked in Domestic planning and interior


decoration.
❑Very many modest residences and town “hotels” were
erected.
❑Room were planned for independent approach rather than
in sequence
❑Double depth or deep squarish plans become normal
❑Internal corners of apartment were sometimes rounded
❑Except in church architecture, architecture became simpler
and at the same time less classically pure

Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE


Renaissance
Architecture
IN FRANCE
FRENCH RENAISSANCE
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
1. CHATEAU DE BLOIS(blisum castrum)
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
1. CHATEAU DE BLOIS
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
2. CHATEAU DE BURY
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
3. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD

design by an Italian architect DOMENICO DA CORTONA


is the most famous in Loire district
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
3. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD

DOMENICO DA CORTONA called "Boccador"


a pupil of Giuliano da Sangallo
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
4. PALAIS DE FONTAINBLUE
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
4. PALAIS DE FONTAINBLUE
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
5. PALAIS DU LOUVRE, Paris

Construction begins from time of Francis I to Napoleon III in the 19th century
Exhibits a complete history of the progressive stages of the French Renaissance
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
6. PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG, Paris

was erected for Marie de’ Medici by Solomon de Brosse,


one of the century, in bold and simple style with rusticated garden façade
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
7. CHATEAUX DE MAISONS, Paris

Design by Francois Mansart


one of the most pleasantly harmonious of all chateaux
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
8. DOME OF THE INVALIDES, Paris

Design by Libéral Bruant & Jules Hardouin-Mansart


Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
8. DOME OF THE INVALIDES, Paris
Hôtel national des Invalides
(The National Residence of the Invalids)

A complex of buildings in the


7th arrondissement of Paris,
France, containing museums
and monuments, all relating to
the military history of France,
as well as a hospital and a
retirement home for war
veterans, the building's original
purpose.
Renaissance Architecture in FRANCE
9. PANTHÉON, Paris

Design by Jacques-Germain Soufflot & Jean-Baptiste Rondelet


originally built as a church and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes,
now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.

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