RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



at St Denis ; other examples are to be found in Amiens Cathedral, Notre 

 Dame at Bourg, and at Brou. St Riquier offers an example of a font 

 and its cover, Bueil of a font cover, and Bretagnolles of a font canopy 

 (Fig. 37), a chapel in St Wulfran at Abbeville of a reredos, the cathedral 

 of Aix in Provence and St Gengoult at Toul of doors. 



TOMBS. The tombs of the great often assumed considerable archi- 

 tectural proportions. Up till the Renaissance period it had been usual 

 to show the figure of the deceased clothed and sleeping on an altar-like 

 pedestal, either standing free or against a wall with or without a canopy 

 or arched recess above it. Occasionally the naked wasted corpse or 

 skeleton appeared in a niche below. Louis XI. was the first to be 

 represented in a kneeling position above. The duplication of figures 

 became frequent at the Renaissance, and the architectural surroundings 

 correspondingly increased in size and elaboration. The corpse effigies 

 (gisants) sometimes lay in an open vault below or within the pedestal 



and the life-like effigy 

 on its top : or, if the 

 former occupied the 

 top, the pedestal 

 sometimes took the 

 form of a sarco- 

 phagus, and the 

 canopy above was 

 transformed into a 

 platform or upper 

 niche for the latter. 

 Besides kneeling 

 figures (priants), 

 others, in various at- 

 titudes of life, and 

 even on horseback, 

 came into use. 



Towns BY ITAL- 

 IANS. It has already 

 been noticed that 

 sepulchral design was 

 in advance of archi- 

 tecture generally, and 

 that even before the 

 Italian campaigns 

 Italian tombs were 



TOURS CATHEDRAL : LANTERN OF N.W. TOWER erected m France. 

 (1498-1507). Consequently it is 



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