Stunning & Highly-Detailed Copper Plate Engraving
Woodwork in Gallery of Francis I, Fontainebleau
Gallery of Francis I. is a great gallery of pageantry on the first floor of the Royal Palace of Fontainebleau (in the Seine-et-Marne ). Intervention in the 1530s Italian artists Rosso Fiorentino and Primatice makes this gallery decorative together as representative of the first School of Fontainebleau , and demonstrates the popularity of Francis I for Italian art.
Built between 1528 and 1530 , it measures about 64 meters long and 6 meters wide, and was formerly a covered deck enjoying openings on both sides. King Francis I made the build and decorate, to connect its apartments in the chapel of the Trinity. He kept the keys and was visiting his guests.
The gallery was entrusted to Italian Rosso Fiorentino and Primatice who decorated it in an original way with paint, paneling, the frescoes and stucco . Work échelonnèrent March 1535 to May 1537 for stucco, from 1536 for the frescoes, and was completed just before the visit of Charles V at Christmas 1539 .
Carved walnut woodwork is the work of Italian carpenter Francisco Scibec Carpi soon realized that 1535 with rare species, but turned almost exclusively to the walnut from 1539 , when he runs the floor of the gallery and paneling.
Francis I was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy.
Leon Palustre of Montifault (born 4 February 1838 in Saivres, died 26 October 1894 in Saint-Symphorien) was one of France's premier archaeologist. In 1885, Leon Palustre, resigned as president of the French Archaeological Society, to devote himself to his book on the art and architecture of France during the Renaissance, which he would not live to finish. The first three volumes, which were published (1879 , 1881 and 1885), were awarded the Guérin of the French Academy. Most of the illustrations were printed from copper plate engravings illustrated by Eugene Sadoux and L. Gautier.
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