- Jean Bullant
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Jean Bullant (composer) "Jean Bullant (1515 — 1578) was a French
architect and sculptor who built the tombs ofAnne de Montmorency , Grand Connétable of France, Henri II, andCatherine de' Medici , as well as theTuileries , theLouvre , and theChâteau d'Écouen . Bullant was aHuguenot .On his return from study in Rome, Bullant worked for Montmorency, for whom he transformed the
Château d'Écouen about 1550, built the "petit château" at Chantilly, and modernised the Château de Fère-en-Tardenois, with its splendid bridge.He took up the on-going works at the
Tuileries upon the death ofPhilibert Delorme (1570), and was appointed royal arcitect, (1571-78).. At Chenonceaux he built the gallery that spans the river on arches (1576-1577).For
Catherine de Médicis he built the Hôtel de Soissons, (1572-84; demolished in 1748), of which only the "Medici column" remains.His treatise on architecture, "La Règle générale d'architecture sur les cinq manières de colonnes", was published at Paris, 1564 and 1568. Bullant was also the author of treatises on geometry and horology.
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Catherine de' Medici's building projects External links
Bullant's treatises on line: http://www.cesr.univ-tours.fr/architectura/Traite/Auteur/Bullant.asp
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