biography
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du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet 1er
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pronunciation:
[dü sairsoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1510–c.84)
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| biography:
| Architect, theoretician, and engraver, born in Paris, France. After visiting Rome in the 1540s, he returned to France, where he published a number of books of engravings of great French houses, including Les plus excellents bastiments de France (1576–9). His designs were often fantastic and baroque in character. He built two chateaux, Verneuil (1565) and Charleval (1573), now demolished. His influence lived on through his three architect sons and his great-nephew, Salomon de Brosse. |
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