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The Château d'Écouen is a historical château in the city of Écouen, north of Paris, France. The château was built between 1538 and 1550 by the architect Jean Bullant for Anne de Montmorency, who was made ''Connétable de France'' in 1538. ==History== Anne de Montmorency had inherited the château in 1515, and his building campaigns were informed by his first-hand experience in overseeing royal works at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Fontainebleau.〔See Brigitte Bedos Rezak, ''Anne De Montmorency: Seigneur de la Renaissance'', (Paris:Publisud) 1990, part III.〕 Jean Bullant is likely to have been the architect, for he was commissioned to design the Grand Constable's tomb, but it has also been suggested that Pierre Tâcheron had a hand in the château's design.〔Andrew Ayers, ''The Architecture of Paris'', Fellbach: Edition Axel Menges, 2004, p. 296.〕 The colossal order is rare in French architecture before Bullant; his characteristic use of it might be its first appearance in France here, on the pavilion on the court side.〔Rosalys Coope, "The Château of Montceaux-en-Brie", ''Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes'' 22.1/2 (January - June 1959:71-87) p. 77.〕 Anne de Montmorency was a major patron of the arts in France, and a protector of artists: his chapel was decorated with sculptures by Jean Goujon, and Jean Bullant, Barthélemy Prieur, Bernard Palissy. Some of the Androuet du Cerceau family found protection and work at Écouen.〔Janet S. Byrne, "Monuments on Paper" ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin''New Series, 25.1 (Summer 1966, pp. 24-29) p 28.〕 Unhappily, no building accounts survive, so the precise sequence of the construction cannot be closely followed;〔A. Bertrand, ''Un château à Écouen'' (1974); John Cornforth, "Château d'Écouen, Seine et Oise" ''Country Life Magazine'' 12 July 1984, pp 164-67.〕 panels of grisaille stained glass in the gallery of the west wing are dated 1542 and 1544,〔 Much of the glass from Écouen is now at the Musée Condé, Chantilly. Michael Archer, "'Monmorency's Sword' from Écouen" ''The Burlington Magazine'' 129 No. 1010 (May 1987, pp. 298-303) p 301.〕 and the east wing was paved in 1549-50. The building was frescoed and furnished during the 1550s, in the style of the School of Fontainebleau. Écouen was illustrated in engravings in Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's ''Les Plus excellents bastiments de France'', 1576. In 1787 the east (entrance) wing was demolished by the owner, the Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé. When he emigrated at the Revolution, Château of Écouen fell to the State, as a "national property" ("''bien national''"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Château d'Écouen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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