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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCK. 



The tomb of Admiral Chabot by Jean Cousin (1543), once in the 

 Celestine Church in Paris, fragments of which are preserved in the 

 Louvre, is an example of the wall-niche type, which reaches its most 

 splendid expression in the monument of George, Cardinal of Amboise, 

 in the Lady Chapel of Rouen Cathedral (1520-25), attributed to Rouland 

 le Roux, with several assistant sculptors (Fig. 114). The kneeling effigy 

 rests on a black marble slab with an alabaster substructure, back- 

 ground, and canopy, forming a setting, simple in its main lines, yet 

 wrought up to a pitch of indescribable intricacy, with a wealth of statuary 

 and bas-relief, shells and scrolls, wreaths, pendents, and candelabra. The 

 monument was altered after 1540 to commemorate its builder, George II., 

 of Amboise. Room was made for his effigy by prolonging the slab. 

 Another type of monument was the wall tablet, a fine example of which 



is that of Cardinal 

 Bernard in Amiens 

 Cathedral (1543). 

 At St Florentin and 

 at St Andre, Joigny, 

 are examples of Holy 

 Sepulchres, and at 

 Solesmes a series of 

 monuments illustrat- 

 ing the life of the 

 Virgin. 



FITTINGS. 

 Church accessories 

 and fittings in the 

 style of Francis I. 

 exhibit many delight- 

 ful and ingenious 

 applications of its 

 characteristic decora- 

 tion, while, as in the 

 case of the church 

 itself, the essential 

 form remains little 

 changed, as the ex- 

 amples illustrated 

 will show. They are 

 a font from St Ouen 

 at Pont Audemer 

 I (Fig. 112), a reredos 

 ' from a chapel in the 

 112. PONT AUDEMER: FONT IN ST OUEN. Cathedral at Sens 



