Pierre Lescot
Pierre Lescot (* 1515 in Paris ; † September 10, 1578 ibid), Seigneur de Clagny, Canon of Notre-Dame de Paris , was a French architect and sculptor of the Renaissance .
In close collaboration with Jean Goujon , he worked mainly in Paris.
His first known work was the rood screen of the parish church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , made between 1541 and 1544 , of which only a few fragments are preserved in the Louvre . After 1545, Pierre Lescot built the city palace for Jacques de Ligneris, president of the Paris Parliament, the Hôtel Carnavalet, which houses the Musée Carnavalet .
In 1546 he was commissioned by King Francis I to build the new Louvre . This is how the famous south-west wing of the Cour Carrée , named after Lescot, was created , ie the square inner courtyard of the Louvre, which was not completed until 1555 under Henry II after the original plans were changed and is regarded as the perfect expression of French Renaissance architecture.
The Fontaine des Innocents fountain in Paris' Quartier des Halles and the castle of Vallery are ascribed to Pierre Lescot .
Pierre de Ronsard was one of his friends .
Web links
literature
- Grand Larousse Encyclopédique
- Fleury, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg , Babelon: Paris de Lutèce à Beaubourg , Flammarion, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-08-200177-6
- The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, volume 2, page 42
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lescot, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1515 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1578 |
| Place of death | Paris |