RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



279., DESIGN FOR SIDE OF ROOM, BY J. LE PAUTRE. 



SCULPTORS. Among the sculptors the same gradual predominance 

 of Roman over Flemish influence took place. Jacques Sarrazin 

 (1588-1660), who long stood at the head of the French sculptors, 

 had spent eighteen years in Italy. He worked at Maisons and many 

 of the Paris churches. His masterpieces are the tomb of Henry II. 

 of Conde at St Paul, now in the chapel at Chantilly (begun 1646), 

 and the Pavilion de 1'Horloge at the Louvre. His principal assistants 

 here were Gilles Guerin, and the Flemings Buyster and Van 

 Opstal, the latter of whom also worked at the Hotel Carnavalet. 

 The brothers Anguier each spent some years in Rome. Francois 

 (c. 1613-69) executed the Montmorency Mausoleum at Moulins, and 

 other tombs; Michel (c. 1614-86) helped his brother and worked for 

 Fouquet, and at the Louvre and Val-de-Gra.ce. Even Laurent Magnier 

 (c. 1619-1700), whose work was principally in wood, such as the 

 ceilings and wall decorations in the Palais des Etats at Rennes, the 

 Louvre, and later at Versailles, spent five years in Rome. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF Louis XIV. DECORATION. Louis XIV. 

 decoration retains the sumptuousness and the massive character of 

 that of Louis XIII. with even increased scale but greater refinement 

 in the profiles and enrichments, and it dispenses with its complications 

 and intricacies, its multiplication of similar members and repeated 

 breaks and ressauts. With the fatiguing fussiness the coarse and grotesque 

 elements also disappear. 



The sun, the symbol of the Roi Soleil, and the Gallic cock 



