• Androuet du Cerceau was a family of French architects and designers active in the 16th and early 17th century. Family members include: Jacques I Androuet...
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    Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, also given as Du Cerceau, DuCerceau, or Ducerceau (1510–1584) was a well-known French designer of architecture, ornament...
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    French architect and engraver, Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, and the brother of the architect Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau. He worked at the Château de...
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  • Jean Androuet du Cerceau (c.1585–1650) was a French architect, the son of Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau, the outstanding Parisian architect of his...
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  • Jean Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau (1544/47–1590) was a French architect who designed the Pont Neuf (1579), spanning the Seine, Paris, and became supervisor...
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    hitting his head on a lintel. Plan of Château d'Amboise by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau The Château beginning the transition from Medieval to Renaissance...
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    round the terrace which can be seen in the 1576 engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, in Les plus excellens bastimens de France. The parterres have...
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    and Paralympic cauldron. Plan for the palace and gardens by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, 1576–1579 Plan of the Tuileries garden in about 1589. The Louvre...
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    jewel for the bride. The service was conducted by Charles I, Cardinal de Bourbon. Eustache du Bellay, the Bishop of Paris, gave an address and celebrated...
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    illustrated in Les Plus Excellents Bâtiments de France (1576) by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau Detail of ground floor's decoration, as illuminated by night...
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  • determine community planning in his overseas possessions. 1576–79 – Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau publishes Les plus excellents bastiments de France in Paris...
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  • Lucera castle Pierre de Chaule (late 13th century) Castel Nuovo Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau (c. 1510 – c. 1585) Important book of architectural engravings...
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    Huguenot family, the grandson through his mother of the designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau and the son of the architect Jean de Brosse. He was established...
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    century. In his book  ‘The Most Excellent Buildings of France‘, Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau illustrates and documents this building. During the 18th century...
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    can only be admired from engravings, such as those made by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau or the depiction of the château on the fresco maps in the Galerie...
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    Louvre palace for the king, Philibert Delorme, Jean Bullant and Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau. Sculpture had a great development in France during the Renaissance...
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  • Empire (b. 1519) December 27 – Pierre de Ronsard, Poet (b. 1524) Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau – Engraver and Architect (b. 1510) Louise de Cipierre, Court...
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    Edward Francis. Northumberland had sent him other volumes by Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, Philibert de l'Orme, Sebastiano Serlio, Wendel Dietterlin,...
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  • 1562) Jacopino del Conte, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1598) Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, architect, sculptor, designer (died 1584) Antonio Fantuzzi...
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    façade of the Lescot Wing, engraved by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, 1576 Pavillon du Roi, south façade, du Cerceau, 1576 The Louvre in an engraving, 1580s...
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    the Younger Filippo Brunelleschi Marco Cardisco Juan de Castillo Androuet du Cerceau Jean Clouet François Clouet Colantonio Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas...
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    architectural sculpture". De l'Orme's original plans have not survived. Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, however, has left us a set of plans for the Tuileries. One engraving...
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    (drawing by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau) Elevations of the de l'Orme wing of the Tuileries Palace (drawing by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau) The first major...
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    Southern façade was completely changed, as Lefuel disliked Jacques II Androuet du Cerceau's colossal order and replacing it with a replica of the earlier...
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    architects and decorators Etienne Duperac, Louis Metezeau and Jacques II Androuet du Cerceau contributed to the new palace. The Grand Gallery and the Gros...
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  • Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, French architect, sculptor, designer (born 1510) Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (born c.1500) Jacques du Broeucq...
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    château de Grosbois is clearly influenced by those designed by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. On a U plan, it is made up of a central wing curved into an...
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    1555 took inspiration from an engraving by the architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. It retains the general composition of the engraving but simplifies...
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    expansion of the château, shown in an engraving published by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau in the second (1579) volume of his book Les plus excellents bastiments...
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  • has fireplaces following the patterns of the French designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau. In 1598 he built the Charteris burial aisle at Kinfauns where...
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