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Jean Bullant.
Being one of the leading architects of the 16th century France, Jean Bullant still remains unknown in contrast to his splendid contemporaries.!
Biography
French architect and mason. Members of his family were prominent master masons in Picardy, and he combined the skills of the master mason with a mastery of Classical architecture.
He made measured drawings of ancient monuments while in Rome (c.
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1540-45). From c. 1550 to 1567 Bullant was in the service of the Constable Anne, Duc de Montmorency and resided at Montmorency's château of Écouen (Val-d'Oise) from 1556 to 1578, where he produced his major works. He began with the exterior façade of the north wing, basing the composition directly on Roman models as well as on Vitruvian doctrine.
Biography of Colonel John Trumbull, ed.His monumental entry pavilion on the east wing, with its triumphal arch motif composed of superimposed orders (1555-60; destroyed 1787, but known through an engraving by Jacques Androuet I Du Cerceau), recalls Philibert Delorme's portico at Anet (Eure-et-Loire).
Bullant used the Giant order for the first time in France in the entry portal to the south wing of the court (c. 1560); althou