Jean Perréal
Jean Perréal (* 1460 in Lyon, † 1530 in Melun, John also Parisiensus or Jean De Paris) was a French Renaissance artist, painter and architect.
Life
Jean Perréal was probably the highest paid and one of the most respected artists of his time. Even Leonardo da Vinci noted to question Perréal after his art of colored chalk drawing. Jean Perréal and Leonardo da Vinci were acquainted with each other later. Perréal used with the acquaintance of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and the later famous physician Symphorien Champier.
Perréal mentioned 1485-1529 almost every year. He kept either in his home city of Lyon on or acted as court painter under the three kings Charles VIII, Louis XII. and Francis I. the French royal family on trips. The fame he had at the time, established itself in large part to his artistic organization of catchment festivals highly placed personalities Lyon. Such celebrations were real glorious, and their buildings ( triumphal arches made of paper mache, street decorations, festival productions, etc.) gained much longer-lasting fame. This Perréal should have been famous for having intricate abstract political and other ideological content illustrated by allegories, as is also apparent from some ascribed manuscript miniatures.
Jean Perréal led the organization of collections of Charles II of Bourbon and the Cardinal of Lyon in 1485, by France's King Charles VIII in 1490, and of Queen Anne of Brittany in 1494, and also of King Louis XII. in 1499 and Cardinal Francis of Rohan in 1506. too, he organized the extraordinarily sumptuous feast in the year 1515 by King Francis I. and the Duke Francesco Maria della Rovere, in 1518th The funerals of Anne of Brittany in 1514 and of King Louis XII. 1515 were led by Perréal.
In 1514 he was commissioned to travel to London to the equipment of the future Queen Mary of England, the wife of Louis XII. Prepare. In 1494 Perréal was also a technical reviewer of the city of Lyon, since 1509 he held the title of " controleur ," this year, he also inspected the scaffolding of the collapsed pillar of the bridge over the Rhone in Lyon.