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See also: time and place of his See also: birth are still uncertain
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The first mention of his name occurs in the accounts of the See also: church of St Maclou at
See also: Rouen in the See also: year 1540, and in the following year he was employed at the See also: cathedral of the same See also: town, where he added to the See also: tomb of See also: Cardinal d'See also: Amboise a statue of his See also: nephew Georges, afterwards removed, and possibly carved portions of the tomb of See also: Louis de
See also: Breze, executed some time after 1545
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On leaving Rouen, Goujon was employed by See also: Pierre Lescot, the celebrated architect of the Louvre, on the restorations of St-Germain 1'Auxerrois; the See also: building accounts—some of which for the years 1542–1544 were discovered by M. de Laborde on a piece of See also: parchment binding—specify as his See also: work, not only the carvings of the pulpit (Louvre), but also a Notre See also: Dame de Piete, now lost
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In 1547 appeared See also: Martin's French
See also: translation of See also: Vitruvius, the illustrations of which were due, the translator tells us in his " Dedication to the See also: King," to Goujon, " nagueres architecte de Monseigneur le Connetable, at maintenant un
See also: des v8tres." We learn from this statement not only that Goujon had been taken into the royal service on the accession of See also: Henry II., but also that he had, been previously employed under Bullant on the .chateau of Ecouen
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Between 1547 and 1549 he was employed in the decoration of the Loggia ordered from Lescot for the entry of Henry II. into
See also: Paris, which took place on the 16th of See also: June 1549
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Lescot's edifice was reconstructed at the end of the 18th century by See also: Bernard See also: Poyet into the Fontaine des Innocents, this being a considerable variation of the See also: original design
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At the Louvre, Goujon, under the direction of Lescot, executed the carvings of the See also: south-west angle of the See also: court, the
reliefs of the Escalier See also: Henri II., and the Tribune des Cariatides, for which he received 737 livres on the 5th of See also: September 1550
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Between 1548 and 1554 See also: rose the chateau d'See also: Anet, in the embellishment of which Goujon was associated with Philibert See also: Delorme in the service of See also: Diana of See also: Poitiers
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Unfortunately the building accounts of Anet have disappeared, but Goujon executed a vast number of other See also: works of equal importance, destroyed or lost in the See also: great Revolution
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In 1555 his name appears again in the Louvre accounts, and continues to do so every succeeding year up to 1562, when all trace of him is lost
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In the course of this year an attempt was made to turn out of the royal employment all those who were suspected of Huguenot tendencies . Goujon has always been claimed as a Reformer; it is consequently possible that he was one of the victims of this attack . We should therefore probably ascribe the work attributed to him in the Hotel Carnavalet (in situ), together with much else executed in various parts of Paris—but now dispersed or destroyed—to aSee also: period intervening between the date of his dismissal from the Louvre and his See also: death, which is computed to have taken place between 1564 and 1568, probably at Bologna
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The researches of M
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Tomaso Sandonnini,(see See also: Gazette des See also: Beaux Arts, 2e periode, vol. xxxi.) have finally disposed of the supposition, long entertained, that Goujon died during the St Bartholomew See also: massacre in 1572
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See also: List of authentic works of See also: Jean Goujon: Two marble columns supporting the See also: organ of the church of St Maclou (Rouen) on right and See also: left of porch on entering; left-See also: hand See also: gate of the church of St Maclou; bas-reliefs for decoration of screen of St Germain 1'Auxerrois (now in Louvre); " Victory " over chimney-piece of Salle des Gardes at Ecouen; altar at See also: Chantilly; illustrations for Jean Martin's translation of Vitruvius; bas-reliefs and sculptural decoration of Fontaine des Innocents; bas-reliefs adorning entrance of Hotel Carnavalet, also series of See also: satyrs' heads on keystones of See also: arcade of courtyard; fountain of Diana from Anet (now in Louvre); See also: internal decoration of See also: chapel at Anet; portico of Anet (now in courtyard of f tole des Beaux Arts);' bust of Diane de Poictiers (now at See also: Versailles); Tribune of See also: Caryatides in the Louvre; decoration of " Escalier Henri IL, " Louvre; ocils de bceuf and decoration of Henri II. See also: facade, Louvre; See also: groups for pediments of facade now placed over entrance to See also: Egyptian and See also: Assyrian collections, Louvre
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See A
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Pottier, Quvres de Goujon (1844); Reginald Lister, Jean Goujon (See also: London, 1903)
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