. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . ents absolutelyoutside auytliing in Italy: their crude but piquant coating of theRenaissance detail upon Gothic forms soon evinced a growing desirefor beauty and proportion, while retaining the vitality of the Gothic. Probably the craftsmen em-ployed in producing decorativewoodwork for the palaces inthe Loire Valley were for awhilein advance of their Parisianbrethren, but the sack of Romein 1527, incidentally assistedthe development of the Re-naissance in France, as manyartists were glad to find homesand welcome in Paris. Among
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . ents absolutelyoutside auytliing in Italy: their crude but piquant coating of theRenaissance detail upon Gothic forms soon evinced a growing desirefor beauty and proportion, while retaining the vitality of the Gothic. Probably the craftsmen em-ployed in producing decorativewoodwork for the palaces inthe Loire Valley were for awhilein advance of their Parisianbrethren, but the sack of Romein 1527, incidentally assistedthe development of the Re-naissance in France, as manyartists were glad to find homesand welcome in Paris. Amongthe Italians employed by FrancisI. in the decoration of Fontaine-bleau were II Rosso, Vignola,Primaticcio, Serlio, Andrea delSarto, and possibly Leonardo da BED OF CATHERINE DK MEDICI, CHENONgEAUX. VlUCl. Yet Whett FraUClS TB- solved to make the Louvre his Paris palace he chose Pierre Lescot, aFrenchman, as his architect to build the south-west wing, and anotherFrenchman, Jean Goujon, to execute the magnificent carving are the days of the versatile. BENVENUTO CELLINI the Florentine, whose autobiography gives so forcible a picture ofthe practice of the decorative arts in Italy and France at tliisperiod, and is so entrancing a revelation of his quarrelsome person-ality, that one willingly adds novelist, braggart, and fighter to his THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE 141
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