Hector Sohier was a 16th-century
Normand architect. He is the author of many buildings in
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,[Apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...]
of the
Church of Saint-Pierre, Caen
The Church of Saint-Pierre (french: Église Saint-Pierre) is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church (building), church located on the Place Saint-Pierre in the centre of Caen in Normandy, northern France. It is dedicated to Saint Peter.
Known ...
(1518-1545)
* Apse of the (1546)
* Château of
Chanteloup
Works formerly attributed to Hector Sohier
* .
*
Choir
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...
and chapels of the (circa 1546).
* Château de
Lasson (circa 1517).
[Étienne Faisant, ''Le château de Lasson'', Bulletin of the Société des Antiquaires de Normandie , Caen, volume LXVIII, 2009, (]
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References
External links
Hector Sohieron Encyclopédie Universalis
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16th-century French architects
Year of birth missing
1560s deaths