Pierre Lescot

Pierre Lescot (* 1515 in Paris, † September 10, 1578 in Paris), Seigneur de Clagny, canon of Notre- Dame de Paris, was a French architect and sculptor of the Renaissance.

He, worked in close collaboration with Jean Goujon, especially in Paris.

His first known work was created in the years 1541-1544 rood screen of the parish church of Saint -Germain l'Auxerrois, of which only a few fragments have been preserved in the Louvre. After 1545 Pierre Lescot built the City Palace of Jacques de Ligneris, presiding judge at the Parliament of Paris, the Hôtel Carnavalet, where the Musée Carnavalet is located.

In 1546 he was commissioned by King Francis I with the construction of the Louvre. So the famous, named after Lescot southwest wing of the Cour Carrée, ie the square courtyard of the Louvre, which was completed after changing the original plans until 1555 under Henry II and is considered as a perfect expression of French Renaissance architecture. Was

Attributed to Pierre Lescot the fountain Fontaine des Innocents in Paris' Quartier des Halles and the castle of Vallery.

Among his friends was one of Pierre de Ronsard.

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