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Gothic Art and Architecture - MSN Encarta (596 words) |
 | The final flowering of Flamboyant architecture occurred between the end of the 15th century and the 1530s in the work of Martin Chambiges and his son Pierre, who were responsible for a series of grand cathedral façades, including the west front of Troyes Cathedral and the transept façades of Senlis and Beauvais cathedrals. |
| The earliest monument in the Flamboyant style, the large screen (1388) with traceried gables that surmounts the triple fireplace in the ancient Palais des Comtes at Poitiers, foreshadows the pierced decorative gables on the exteriors of the Flamboyant-style churches. |
| In France from the late 15th century to the 1520s new châteaux in the Flamboyant style were being built extensively, from Amboise (1483-1501) and Blois (1498-1515), on the Loire, to Josselin (early 16th century), in Brittany. |
| Italian Art and Architecture - MSN Encarta (2289 words) |
| A purer form of Classical architecture was created by a younger architect, Leon Battista Alberti, who also wrote an early explanation of perspective in his Trattato della Pittura (Treatise on Painting) of 1435. |
| Mannerism is a term that is applied to much Italian art produced between the 1520s and the end of the 16th century. |
| Born in Parma, he was influenced in the early 1520s by the brilliant illusionistic frescoes that were being executed there by the somewhat older Correggio. |
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