THE STYLE OF LOUIS XII. 



13. CASTLE OF BLOIS : ENTRANCE FRONT (Louis XII. WING, FINISHED 1503). 



strong support to the traditional attribution to him of many important 

 contemporary buildings and to the view of him as the inspirer of the 

 whole Loire school. 



OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COLONY. Another artist of the colony, 

 Guido Mazzoni (died 1518) of Modena, known as Modanino or 

 Paganino, was even more highly appreciated, for he was knighted by 

 Charles at Naples and engaged as sculptor, painter, and illuminator 

 at a salary of 937! 1. a year. A speciality of his was terra-cotta work 

 decorated in colours. After making his fortune in France he retired to 

 his native city in 1516. 



The sculptor, Jerome Pacherot (Passerot or Pacchiariti), who received 

 a salary of only 240 1. a year, is probably the same as the Jerome of 

 Fiesole who later was employed by Michel Colombe at Tours. Among 

 the woodworkers, the most prominent was Domenico Bernabei of Cortona 

 (known as "Boccador"), with a salary of 240 1., who assumed an im- 

 portant position in the architectural world at a later period. There 

 were also two intarsia workers, Richard of Carpi and Bernardino of 

 Siena, the latter at 240 1., and a garden designer, Dom Pacello (Passello 

 or Passolo) da Mercoliano, at 375 1. a year. 



AMBOISE. Such were the artists with whose help Charles VIII. on 

 his return from Italy began to transform his castle of Amboise into a 

 magnificent palace, though he had all but completely rebuilt it before 

 the war. But his premature death prevented the full realisation of these 

 projects, which were only partially carried out by his successors. As 

 the sixteenth century left it, the castle must have been a magnificent, if 

 heterogeneous, pile (Fig. 8). It has, however, suffered so much by sue- 



