Medieval Architecture
Gallery Three
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View of chateau from the garden courtyard. Built mostly under Charles VIII. The Minimes Tower (big, round tower at right) contains a spiral ramp which allowed horsemen to enter. Detail showing gargoyles on top of a Flamboyant Gothic church, originally the Queen's oratory in the Chateau Amboise. Leonardo Da Vinci is buried here. View of the chateau from the 16C designed gardens. Shows some influence of the French Renaissance. Commissioned by Jean le Breton, Secretary of State to François I.
? Architect Chateau
Amboise, begun 1492
Amboise, France		 Leonardo Da Vinci
Chapel of St. Hubert
1492. Amboise, France		 ? Architect
Chateau de Villandry
16C. Villandry, France
Right half of front elevation. Main entry is at left. Slightly oblique front elevation. Main entry is in the center. View of castle from the Rhine (Rhein) river.
? Architect
Chateau d' Usse
15C. Usse, France		 ? Architect
Chateau d' Usse
15C. Usse, France		 ? Architect, Rheinstein
castle, circa 1279
Trechtingshausen, Ger.
View of castle from the Rhine (Rhein) river. Gutenfels castle (13C) is visible in silhouette on the opposite bank. View of castle from the Rhine (Rhein) river. Only castle on Rhine never to have been destroyed. View of castle from the Rhine (Rhein) river. Rebuilt in 1836 by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
? Architect
Pfalz Castle, early 14C
near Kaub, Germany		 ? Architect
Marksburg Castle, 12C
Braubach, Germany		 ? Architect
Stolzenfels castle, 1250
near Koblenz, Germany
"Architecture... the adaptation of form to resist force."

- John Ruskin, from Val d'Arno, 1874
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