François Ier et l'art des Pays-Bas. Protohistoire - Claude-Henri Pirat

- Claude-Henri Pirat

Excerpt from the Review of Political Economy

aroused great enthusiasm

Monografie della Scuola' archeologica di Atene e delle missioni italiane in Oriente - V

foreshadowing the style of the Early Renaissance

François Ier et l'art des Pays-Bas. Protohistoire - Claude-Henri PiratWhile Francis I's taste for Italian art is well known and his patronage is essentially identified with the creation of the Italianate center of Fontainebleau, his reign is nonetheless part of a very lively tradition of establishing artists from the Low Countries in France. The best known of these northern artists active in France during his reign, Jean Clouet and Corneille de La Haye, known as Corneille de Lyon, specialized in portraiture. But both in