Pierre Lescot is a Architecte French born with Paris in 1515 and died in this same city the September 10th 1578. It had like friend the poet Pierre de Ronsard.

Formation

It is a Chanoine of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is also a man of Cour under François I {{er}}. The sovereign chooses it to be the architect of the Louvre. Its formation remains very enigmatic, even if the historians advance three influences without really being able to date them:

1. frequentation of the school of Fontainebleau.
2. reading of the books of Sebastiano Serlio.
3. the voyage in Italy, almost obligatory condition.

Louvre

Preferred in the Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio by Henri II, he collaborated with the sculptor Jean Goujon to carry out the Lescot wing of the Palais of Louvre. Louvre thus seems a proclamation of the Architecture French Rebirth.

The overall inspiration comes from the palates of the Italian Rebirth. One can note the abandonment of the Lucarne S in the roofs in house which were characteristic of the French castles to the profit of a gable roof, attic windows which are replaced by a stage of attic. It is seen that there is integration in French architecture elements borrowed from antiquity like the triangular pediments, the staging of the orders (Corinthian and composite), rhythmic span in the fore-parts, etc the bases rythment the frontage with the presence of fore-part.

It is at the same time a synthesis between the contributions of ancient architecture passed by the rebirth Italian and taken again with the Italian rebirth with contributions suitable for Lescot. This type of architecture has to be the fundamental luggage, the luggage of quotation of French architecture throughout even at the 18th century still. It will be always compared to this architecture that the other styles will have to be, will have to decide. Lescot sets up what one calls the “Classicisme”.

Its achievements

• jubé of Auxerre-native Saint-Germain-the of 1541 with 1544. The church is devastated in 1750.
• the castle of Vallery. Photograph
• the fountain of the Nymphs (become Fountain of Innocent the) in 1549. It was altered in 1788 then in 1860 Photo
• the hotel of Ligneris in 1554, which will be completed by François Mansart at the 17th century (become Hôtel Carnavalet).
• the restoration of the Louvre with the sculptor Jean Pin until his death (ordered by François I {{er}} in 1546).

Others

A street bears its name in the 1 {{er}} district of Paris, as well as a college of commercial teaching in the same district.