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Château at Amboise: Side view, the Chapel of St. Hubert

Date

Circa 1910

Creator

G. Massiot & cie
Part of: Architectural Lantern Slides of France
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

The most impressive survival of Charles's work at Amboise is the chapel of St Hubert, originally part of the Queen's apartments and a fine example of Flamboyant Gothic architecture. The chapel is said to be burial place of Leonardo da Vinci.

Built in the eleventh century on a promontory overlooking the Loire River to control a strategic ford that was replaced in the Middle Ages by a bridge. Expanded and improved over time, on 4 September 1434 it was seized by Charles VII of France. Once in royal hands, the château became a favourite of French kings; Charles VIII decided to rebuild it extensively, beginning in 1492 at first in the French late Gothic Flamboyant style and then after 1495 employing two Italian mason-builders, Domenico da Cortona and Fra Giocondo, who provided at Amboise some of the first Renaissance decorative motifs seen in French architecture. The names of three French builders are preserved in the documents: Colin Biart, Guillaume Senault and Louis Armangeart.

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Creator
G. Massiot & cie
Date
Circa 1910
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