French Renaissance
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The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European Renaissance, a word first used by the
Francis I of France, by Jean and François Clouet (c. 1535, oil on panel) (Louvre).
Eve, First Pandora by Jean Cousin the Elder (c. 1550).
Ligier Richier, Lamentation of Christ, Church of St. Étienne, Saint-Mihiel
Diane the Huntress, School of Fontainebleau (1550–60) (Louvre).
Francis I of France
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Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once removed and father-in-law Louis X
French Renaissance
…roughly) the 1494 French invasion of Italy during the reign of Charles VIII until the 1610 death of Henry IV, with an apex during the 1515–1559 reigns of Francis I and Henry II. This chronology notwithstanding, certain artistic, technological or literary developments associated with the Renaissance arrived in…
Portrait by Jean Clouet, c. 1527–30
Francis I painted in 1515
Francis I receiving the last breath of Leonardo da Vinci in 1519, by Ingres, painted in 1818
Francis's Château de Chambord displays a distinct French Renaissance architecture.