Philibert de l'Orme

Philibert de l'Orme Philibert Delorme also called (* 1510 in Lyon, † January 8, 1570 in Paris) was a French Renaissance architect and author of Masonry and vaulting techniques.

Life

Delorme was the son of the builder Jehan Delorme, grew up in Lyon and learned the building trade. No later than 1533, he traveled to Italy, where he. Pope Paul III worked and became familiar with the ancient monuments and the buildings of the High Renaissance. 1563 he returned to France and worked 1541-1543 in the construction of the Château de St. Maur for the Cardinal du Bellay, whom he had met in Rome. After the death of Francis I, in 1547, appointed him Henry II to the overseer of all royal buildings, with the exception of the Louvre. In subsequent years, he oversaw the construction of Fontainebleau, Saint- Germain ( 1550 ), Château de Madrid, St. Leger and other projects of the French royal house. When his masterpiece is considered the Chateau d' Anet, which Henry II had it built for his mistress Diane de Poitiers 1544-1555. He also created the tomb of Francis I in the abbey church of Saint- Denis. After the death of Henry II, in 1559, replaced him as Francesco Primatice Generalbauinspektor. During the following almost five years of grace he wrote his books Nouvelles Inventions pour bien bastir et à petits Fraiz ( 1561, the first book on the art of stone carving and particularly the theory of stereotomy, the stone cut in vault construction ), and especially L ' Architecture ( 1567). But already in 1563 commissioned him Caterina de ' Medici with an extension of the Castle of St. Maur and a little later he was working on the construction of 1871 destroyed Palais des Tuileries, until his death in 1570.

Delorme's work had an impact until the modern era, such as on the tram depot in Frankfurt -Bockenheim.

Evidence

Work

Buildings

Furthermore, Philibert Delorme, attributed so far without clear evidence, the design of the rood screen of the parish church of Saint- Étienne -du -Mont (Paris), whose staircases and pierced stone railing bears a remarkable resemblance to those of the castle Anet.

Writings

• Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir et a petits fraiz, trouvées n'aguère Philibert de L' Orme par, Lyonnois, Architecte, Conseiller & Aulmonier ordinaire du feu Roy Henry, & Abbé de St Eloy les frais Noyon, in 1561 and later form, the books 10 and 11 of the listed below work
• Le 1er. tome de l'Architecture 1567, divided into nine books, according to the 1648 edition reprinted in Rouen Mardaga, Brussels 1981,

Reproduction:

• Oeuvre, Gregg, Farnborough ( Hampshire ) 1964, reissued after the issue Rouen 1648