Le premier[-second] volvme des plus excellents bastiments de France. Auquel sont designez les plans de quinze bastiments, & de leur contenu: ensemble les eleuations & singularitez d'vn chascun

Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584 · 1607 · A Paris, Pour ledit Iacques Androuet, du Cerceau · 29 pictures

Les Plus Excellents Bastiments de France is a 1607 Paris architectural survey by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, published for his own sale, recording plans and elevations of French royal and noble châteaux. The engraved pages show facades, courtyards and bird's-eye views of the buildings with their gardens and walls, giving a designer a clear record of French Renaissance façade rhythm, dormers, pavilions and formal garden layout.

Buildings · Architecture · Buildings -- France -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800 · Buildings -- France -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800 · Architecture -- France -- 16th century · France

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