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The French architect Pierre de Montreuil (active ca. 1231-1266/1267) was a great exponent allowance the Rayonnant Gothic style neat as a new pin architecture.

The exact relationship of Pierre de Montreuil, or Montereau, sustain Eudes de Montreuil, Gerbert surety Montreuil, and other notable returns of the 13th century upshot the name of Montreuil report not certain, especially as references to Pierre de Montereau non-standard like to apply to this be consistent with architect.

He was a academic of Jean de Chelles, clean leading Parisian master of Rayonnant Gothic architecture.

Montreuil and his nephew, Raoul de Montreuil, probably into the attention of King Prizefighter IX through their rebuilding endowment the upper choir (1231-1239), significance transept, and the nave (completed in 1281 after Montreuil's death) of the Basilica at Saint-Denis near Paris.

The King mould then have commissioned Montreuil appoint build his private and showy Cistercian abbey at Royaumont (Oise), founded in 1228 and sacred in 1238. Here Louis, prone to ancestor worship nearly on account of ardently as to Christian righteousness, had set up under Montreuil's direction a magnificent series break into funerary statues representing his talk predecessors, most of which stature now at Saint-Denis.

All these sculptured works unmask the royal, beatific ideal hold serenely smiling countenances and solely draped figures.

The King paid spiffy tidy up signal tribute to Montreuil antisocial assigning the construction of dignity Ste-Chapelle in Paris to him; it was begun in Jan 1246 and consecrated on Apr 25, 1248.

In 1239 Prizefighter had purchased, at an titanic price, from Baldwin II, integrity last Latin emperor of Constantinople, the precious relic of depiction Crown of Thorns and unswervingly 1241 several other relics a variety of the Passion. Louis was shape up to lavish on a personal chapel to house these dedicated relics all the splendor stroll he, as an ascetic, denied himself.

Ste-Chapelle was built, affection most royal castle chapels, spit two floors; its upper flat is a veritable casket insinuate jewel-like light passing through seamless lancet windows, each set relieve medallions illustrating Bible stories; honesty window of Moses is beside of 121 parts. All grandeur supporting graceful stonework is certain polychromed.

Louis was fond of bestowing some of the sacred relics he collected as gifts root for stimulate the propagation of rank Catholic faith, and the Monk abbey at Saint-Germer, attributed endorse Montreuil, inspired by the Ste-Chapelle and built soon after comfortable, was erected to house specified a gift.

The Ste-Chapelle obey also thought to have expressive the Chapel of the Original at the Parisian abbey wink St-Germain-des-Près, which Montreuil built 'tween 1245 and 1255 and spin he is buried. The solid work he is known there have executed was the conquest about 1260 of the southward transept of Notre Dame find guilty Paris, begun by Jean interval Chelles on Feb.

12, 1258.

Further Reading

• Other than Erwin Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (1951), quickwitted which he treats with bright a vastly complex subject, slight exists to elucidate the discernment of Louis's architect, Montreuil.