Château dAnet

  • French Renaissance architecture

    TITLE: Western architecture: Mannerism
  • garden and landscape design

    TITLE: garden and landscape design: 17th- and 18th-century French
    SECTION: 17th- and 18th-century French
    ...last quarter of the 16th and first quarter of the 17th centuries introduced to France the idioms of the Italian garden. The first garden coordinated with a dwelling appeared at the château of Anet (1547–56) and was designed by the architect Philibert Delorme, but, despite its evident sophistication, it remained an inward-looking, essentially medieval garden. The first sign of...