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Philibert De L’Orme was born in Lyons, France between 1510-1515
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Philibert De L’Orme was born in Lyons, France between 1510-1515
Philibert de l'Orme excavated and studied classical antiquities in Rome.
While building a château at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés for Cardinal du Bellay (c. 1541–47), Philbert was appointed architect to the dauphin (who became Henry II in 1547 and named him abbé of Ivry in 1549). For Henry’s mistress Diane de Poitiers, he designed the magnificent château at Anet (1547–56) and a bridge for the château of Chenonceaux (1556–59). Appointed overseer of buildings (1548), he created a number of important works, including the tomb of King Francis I at Saint-Denis (1547), additions to the palace of Fontainebleau (1548–58), and the new château at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Unfortunately, most of his buildings have been destroyed and are known only from engravings.
Following Henry’s death (1559), Delorme fell from royal favour and turned to writing Nouvelles Inventions pour bien bastir et à petits fraiz (1561) and Le Premier Tome de l’architecture de Philibert de L’Orme (1567, revised 1568), two architectural treatises expounding the theories behind his practices. These works also attest to the way in which Delorme successfully grafted the spirit of Renaissance new learning onto the classic French tradition. In 1564 the queen mother, Catherine de Médicis, recalled him to begin his last major work, the palace of the Tuileries, Paris.
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He was a man with an independent, logical turn of mind and a vigorous personality.