The Church of Saint-Eustache in the Early French Renaissance (Architectura Moderna) - Softcover

Anne-Marie Sankovitch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2503555144 ISBN 13: 9782503555140

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Considered the most important French Renaissance church, Saint-Eustache in Paris has long remained an enigma. What new circumstances allowed its parishioners, long desirous of a new church, suddenly to begin buiding it 1532? Did Francis I play a role? Was the obscure Jean Delamarre possibly its architect? Could the ideas of the Italian theorist, Serlio, have affected his design? These and other key issues are resolved by the author in a sustained reading of all known evidence. The baffling formal complexity of the church is clarified through lucid analysis that employs hundreds of new photographs executed by the author. The building is studied within the context of sixteenth-century French architecture and its roots in antiquity, the Italian Renaissance, Romanesque and Gothic France, and the Flamboyant Style. Sankovitch's work will serve as a standard for all those who desire to understand this mysterious building and its times. A bright, clear window revealing an unseen architecture, previously an invisible -- or at best murky -- episode in the history of art, it is a portal to all future research on the building, and a key to the architectural life of the period.

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About the Author

A leading scholar in French Renaissance architecture, Anne-Marie Sankovitch (1958-2005) studied at Smith College and received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (1991), where she later became Research Associate. Her articles appeared in the Art Bulletin, RES, JSAH, and numerous conference volumes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503555144
• ISBN 13: 9782503555140
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240