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Mathurin Rodier or Mathelin Rodier was a French architect born around 1410 and died around 1484. He was the architect of the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul of Nantes Cathedral for at least 36 years, starting no later than 1444 and ending no earlier than 1480.
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''La cathédrale de Nantes''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodier, Mathurin 15th-century French architects Architects of cathedrals 1410s births 1480s deaths
Biography
The information regarding Mathurin Rodier (also known as Mathelin Rodier) is fragmentary. We know he was coming to Nantes fromTours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...
, where he had a brother, Jean Rodier, and that in 1484, he was married to Édeline Ponset
Il travaille sur le chantier de la cathédrale Saint-Gatien de Tours under the direction of Jean de Dammartin Jean de Dammartin or Jehan de Dammartin sometimes spelled Dampmartin (14th-century in Jargeau (former province of the Orléanais – 1454 in Tours) was a 15th-century French architect.
He was the son of Drouet de Dammartin and probably Guy de Dam ...
between 1431 and 1434, to a position equivalent to that of Jean Benoist and Huguet of Dammartin, son of Jean. Before 1444 he went to Nantes, where he took charge of several building sites, on the Saint-Nicolas gate, the , the cathedral, the Château des ducs de Bretagne
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The Château des ducs de Bretagne ( en, Castle of the Dukes of Brittany) is a large castle located in the city of Nantes in the Loire-Atla ...
, the .
The presence of Mathurin Rodier at the head of the Nantes cathedral site is attested in 1444, with the charge of maistre masson. Most of the few writings concerning him still preserved relate to his emoluments. While managing the site, he was obliged to perform periods of city guard (according to a 1468 text), an obligation instituted by the municipality. A document from 1477 shows that Rodier was exempted from this charge in return for payment.
In 1480 the canons in charge of supervising the building site decided to add Jean Le Maître to Mathurin Rodier, then approximately 70 years old. His ageing is undoubtedly the cause of this novelty, and in the same year the load of the building site was withdrawn, at the end of a remarkably long period for the time. The last written record of Rodier is of an anniversary he and his wife celebrated at Saint-Laurent Church on August 6 or 9, 1484. So he died after that date, most likely in Nantes.
Works
As main contractor:
* Nantes Cathedral
Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (french: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes), is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Construction began in 1434, on t ...
Other participations:
* Cathédrale Saint-Gatien of Tours
* Château des ducs de Bretagne
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The Château des ducs de Bretagne ( en, Castle of the Dukes of Brittany) is a large castle located in the city of Nantes in the Loire-Atla ...
* Porte Saint-Nicolas (Nantes)
* Basilique Saint-Nicolas de Nantes
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References
Bibliography
*See also
*Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It e ...
External links
''La cathédrale de Nantes''
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