Château d'Anet
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The Château d'Anet is a château near Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II of France.
Anet in the 18th century
Bird's-eye view, published by François L’Anglois in the early 17th century
Design for the entrance portal, published in Philibert de L'Orme's Le Premier Tome de l'Architecture (1567)
Philibert de l'Orme
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Philibert de l'Orme was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of French Renaissance architecture. His surname is also written De l'Orme, de L'Orme, or Delorme.
Portrait of Philibert de l'Orme, from a book of 1626
The Hôtel de Bullioud in Lyon
Portal to the Château d'Anet, built for Diane de Poitiers
Garden facade of the Chateau de Saint-Maur (1541, demolished 1796)