Philibert Delorme

See also: Delorme

Philibert Delorme , also known under its name of Of the Elm (Lyon, about 1510 - Paris, 1570) is a Architecte French of the Renaissance.

Biography

He is born in a family from Master-masons. Of 1533 with 1536 it remains with Rome where it studies the ancient monuments. He studied in Italy, and was attracted with Paris in 1537 by the cardinal Jean of Bellay (ambassador of France with Rome), which made known it at the court of François I {{er}} and of Henri II. He had carried out for this last the castle of Saint Maur of which there remain nothing and who was a proclamation of the French rebirth. It was a quadrilateral inspired of the Italian Villa S which was more or less completed in 1544. This castle arouses the interest and Delorme collects the attention of the king then. It multiplies the building sites, and of 1545 with 1557, all the important building sites saw passing Delorme or were directed by him.

It was filled favors and accepted even in gift several Abbaye S, though it was only tonsure. Delorme gave for Henri II the plans of the castles of Anet and Meudon, and later, for Catherine de Médicis, those of the Palais of Tileries, of which it was named governor. In 1557 however, it falls in disgrace, it is shown embezzlements. It passes the remainder of its existence to write theoretical treaties and begins a sum from architecture. It published a complete Traité of Art to build , followed Nouvelles Inventions for building well and with bank charges , Paris, 1561. The first volume of its sum of architecture is published in 1567, it will not go beyond.

It left its name to a species of cover out of frame of its invention. Enthusiastic to ancient architecture, Philibert Delorme endeavoured to adapt it to the climate and manners of France. It was the first to carry the title of “architect of the king” under Henri II. According to A. Jouanna it made " to become the architect of the statute of workman to that of artiste". Delorme breaks with the tradition of the master masons manufacturers of the cathedrals which have all learned on the building sites. It incarnates the figure of the architect carrying the rebirth carrier of an erudite culture.

It was also distinguished like the inventor from the technique from construction from the roofs from hull, technique largely widespread in several French areas, for example in Lozere around Mende. He is also the initiator of the wood assembly to manufacture large piece of wood, beam in lamellate. Later, this technique will lead to the frame Lamellate-stuck.

Achievements

Its writings

  • the New Inventions for bastir well and has bank charges '' (1561)

  • the First Volume of Architecture '' (1567)
  • Site " Structured of the CESR

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