Château de Chenonceau - west facade over Cher (4 May 2006)

Jean Bullant (1515 – 13 October 1578) was a French

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and

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who built the tombs of

Anne de Montmorency Anne, Duke of Montmorency, Honorary Knight of the Garter (15 March 1493, Chantilly, Oise12 November 1567, Paris) was a French soldier, statesman and diplomat. He became Marshal of France and Constable of France and served five kings. Early lif ...

, Grand Connétable of France, Henri II, and

Catherine de' Medici Catherine de' Medici ( it, Caterina de' Medici, ; french: Catherine de Médicis, ; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Florentine noblewoman born into the Medici family. She was Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King ...

. He also worked on the

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, the

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, and the

Château d'Écouen The Château d'Écouen is an historic château in the commune of Écouen, some 20 km north of Paris, France, and a notable example of French Renaissance architecture. Since 1975, it has housed the collections of the Musée national de la Renaissa ...

. Bullant was a

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Career

On his return in 1537 from a study in Rome, Bullant worked for Montmorency, for whom he transformed the

about 1550, built the "petit château" at Chantilly, and modernized the Château de Fère-en-Tardenois, with its splendid bridge. He took up the ongoing works at the

upon the death of Philibert Delorme (1570), and was appointed a royal architect, (1571–78). At

Chenonceaux Chenonceaux () is a commune in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, and the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is situated in the valley of the river Cher, a tributary of the Loire, about 26 km (16 mi) east of Tours and on th ...

he built the gallery that spans the river on arches (1576–1577). For Catherine de Médicis he built the Hôtel de Soissons, (1572–84; demolished in 1748), of which only the '' Medici's column'' remains. His treatise on architecture, ''La Règle générale architecture sur Les cinq manières de colonnes'', was published at Paris, 1564 and 1568. Bullant was also the author of treatises linking theory to practice, on geometry for craftsmen (''Petit Traicté de géometrie et horologiography pratique'', 1564), and horology, notably quadrants and solar clocks (''Recueil d'Horlogiographie'', 1561).

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* *Blunt, Anthony. ''Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700'' 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970. *

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''Nouveau dictionnaire des architectes français''. Paris: André, Daly fils et Cie, 1887; p. 842 * F. Lemerle & Y. Pauwels, ''L'architecture à la Renaissance'', Paris: Flammarion, Paris, 1998 (reissued 2004)

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