The Bethlen Castle, built in the 16th century in the French Renaissance style and restored in the 17th-18th centuries in the Baroque style.
Francis I, who became king that year, made the creation of an opulent musical establishment a priority.
Owners, anxious to impress, encouraged their architects to produce exuberant and often vulgar designs based on a myriad of styles, over-ornamented French Renaissance, Venetian and Gothic predominating.
Carey Mansion, originally called Seaview Terrace, is a sprawling French Renaissance château located in Newport, Rhode Island.
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The ancestral seat of the family Hersent Luzarche, bequeathed to the city of Tours in 1951, now houses a collection of furniture, both of the French Renaissance and in Empire style.
He had a budget of $1 million, and he based the cathedral on the designs of French churches at Périgueux and Paris, as well as French Renaissance and Classical themes.
The French renaissance palace was covered in over 300,000 glazed, multi-color terra cotta tiles imported from the renowned British ceramics maker, Royal Doulton.
Globe Theater (burlesque and later B movie house), later known as the Center and the Pagoda, 690 Washington Street, Boston (1903, French Renaissance)
The external and interior decoration is typical of the French Renaissance style, with Classical orders (ionic, doric, Corinthian), scenes from the legend of Hercules, such as the Lernaean Hydra and the Nemean lion, as well as more personal motifs, such as the cannons, swords, the collar of the Order of Saint Michael.
François Clouet (c. 1510–1572) French Renaissance miniaturist and painter, and son of Jean Clouet
Jean Clouet (1480–1541), French Renaissance miniaturist and painter
Pevsner doesn't appear to have liked the new house, describing it as "very ugly French Renaissance".
Donald M. Frame (1911 in Manhattan – March 8, 1991, in Alexandria, Virginia), a scholar of French Renaissance literature, was Moore Professor Emeritus of French at Columbia University, where he laboured for half a century.
The group took its name from Claude Gervaise, a French renaissance composer, editor and arranger (fl. in Paris ca. 1540–1560), who was mainly known for his instrumental music.
Enzo Giudici (Mussomeli, September 24, 1920 - Rome, October 4, 1985) was an Italian academic, specialising in French Renaissance literature, particularly Louise Labé and Maurice Scève.
The building was expanded in 1963 and again in 1993 with a discrete mid-block addition by Kevin Roche that blends seamlessly with Gilbert's original French Renaissance design.
The most prolific of the French Renaissance comedic authors, Pierre de Larivey, adapted Italian comedies of intrigue by the authors Ludovico Dolce, Niccolò Buonaparte, Lorenzino de' Medici, Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Vincenzo Gabbiani, Girolano Razzi, Luigi Pasqualigo, and Nicolὸ Secchi.
A very elaborate tomb was commissioned for Gaston in Milan from the workshop of Agostino Busti, which despite never being completed and assembled remains a key work in art history, and especially French Renaissance art, with (as planned) classicising relief panels of his campaigns around the base of the sarcophagus, surmounted by a more traditional recumbent effigy.
This independence of the Flemish school he owed in part perhaps to his studies at the University of Paris and to the study of the Italian poets at Lyon, a centre of the French Renaissance.
Jean Tixier de Ravisi (c. 1480–1524), French Renaissance humanist, author, and scholar; former rector of the University of Paris
Pierre Lescot (1510–1578), French architect active during the French Renaissance