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)
Henry II style
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The Henry II style was the chief artistic movement of the sixteenth century in France, part of Northern Mannerism. It came immediately after the High Renaissance and was largely the product of Italian
Henry II wardrobe, circa 1580, walnut and oak wood, in the Louvre. Much like Henri II buffets, French Renaissance wardrobes feature the rich sculptural ornamentation (niches, pediments, pilasters, caryatids, festoane) characteristic of much Renaissance furniture
The Chateau de Chantilly
Diane appuyée sur un cerf by Goujon