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| Date | Drawing 1550s/1570s. Mantelpiece c.1530–40. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Blunt, Anthony, Art and Architecture in France: 1500–1700, 1957, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999 edition, ISBN 0300077483, p. 27. Francis I began building the Château de Madrid in 1527. It is not certain who the architect was, but those mentioned as working on the building were Pierre Gadier, Gatien François, and Girolamo della Robbia. The château is no longer standing, but its appearance is recorded in the drawings and engravings of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. According to art historian Anthony Blunt, "The decoration of the interior of Madrid was fantastic, but in a new way. It is no longer the almost Flamboyant fantasy of the early years of the century but one based on Early Italian Mannerism. The forms are those familiar in the late 1520s in decorative engravings and in Florentine small sculpture in stone or wood, particularly the motive of caryatids which turn into architectural features, such as consoles or foliated balusters. The decoration of this château seems to have been an important source for later French artists, and many motives which we associate with the second half of the century are already to be seen here" (pp. 26–27). |
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