Hugues Sambin
Illustration — Main door of the Parliament of Burgundy (currently law courts) in Dijon, door sculpted by Hugues Sambin, 1580 Hugues Sambin (ca. 1520–1601) was a Franc-comtois sculptor, trained as a menuisier or wood-worker; as a designer of Mannerist ornaments, his published designs, such as Oevvre de la diversite des termes, dont on use en architecture, reduicts en ordres, Lyon, 1572, inspired luxury furnishings, such as dressoires, armoires and cabinets. Its preface was signed "Hugues Sambin, Architecteur en la ville de Dijon".
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Hugues Sambin
Hugues Sambin · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of John L. Severance · CC0
- Born
- 1520 · Gray.
- Died
- 1601 · Dijon.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect · sculptor · hydraulic engineer · printmaker
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Main door of the Parliament of Burgundy (currently law courts) in Dijon, door sculpted by Hugues Sambin, 1580 Hugues Sambin (ca. 1520–1601) was a Franc-comtois sculptor, trained as a menuisier or wood-worker; as a designer of Mannerist ornaments, his published designs, such as Oevvre de la diversite des termes, dont on use en architecture, reduicts en ordres, Lyon, 1572, inspired luxury furnishings, such as dressoires, armoires and cabinets. Its preface was signed "Hugues Sambin, Architecteur en la ville de Dijon".
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Archival references have recently revealed that he had spent six months in 1544 working at the Palace of Fontainebleau, where the French Mannerist style was being rapidly evolved and perfected among the painters and stucco-workers and engravers of the School of Fontainebleau. The somewhat hectic and overcharged style of Hugues Sambin was one of the models employed in Renaissance Revival architecture of the second half of the nineteenth century.
Hugues Sambin is recorded as architect, sculptor, hydraulic engineer and printmaker.
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1520
Hugues Sambin born at Gray.
1601
Hugues Sambin died at Dijon.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2725996: Hugues Sambin
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- “Hugues Sambin”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1091409226, Hugues Sambin (1989 : Dijon).
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1091409226, Hugues Sambin (1989 : Dijon).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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