French sculptor, architect, and engraver Hugues Sambin created an exuberant ornamental style, which spread widely during the 16th Century.
![Draw-top table, School of Hugues Sambin (French, Gray ca. 1520–1601 Dijon), Walnut, French.](http://www.lukedreyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Draw-top-table-1520–1601.jpg)
About His Life
Hugues Sambin was born around 1520 to a family of a menuisier. In his youth, he established himself in Dijon as a master craftsman (maître-menuisier), an architect, designer, and engineer. Then, in 1544, Sambin spent half the year working at the Palace of Fontainebleau, where he became acquainted with the works of Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio. These works represented the height of themanneristmovement under François I and undoubtedly influenced the young woodworker. Later, he incorporated the mannerist aesthetic into his decorative elements and building designs.
![The main door of the Parliament of Burgundy (currently law courts) in Dijon, 1580.](http://www.lukedreyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-main-door-of-the-Parliament-of-Burgundy.jpg)
Image source:https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/9855fbfb-7c7f-4a81-be8f-4462f49ae521byQuentin Verwaerde
Sambin’s Major Works
Sambin’s most important work isOeuvre de la diversité des termes dont on use en architecture because it presents woodcut engravings, which were common for illustrated books of that time, particularly in the major printed treatises of the FrenchRenaissance. However, the Oeuvre is not a “traité”(catalog) like those ofAndrouet du Cerceauand Philibert de l’Orme. Instead, Sambin’s work presents the author as “architecteur en la ville de Dijon”(architector in the city of Dijon). Additionally, his goal in publishing the volume was to make his images available to both artisans and architects.
![Oeuvre de la diversité des termes dont on use en architecture, Hugues Sambin, 1572: The book is opened up to a blank page on the left and a page with intricate design on the right.](http://www.lukedreyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Hugues_Sambin_-_Œuvre_de_la_diversité_des_termes_dont_on_use_en_architecture.jpg)
Image source:https://fr.wikipedia.org/
Features of Sambin’s Style
His furniture engraving and decorative sculptures gained inspiration fromclassicalantiquity.Thus, he was largely responsible for the school of Sambin or Burgundian style, a provincial FrenchRenaissancefurniture style of the Rhone Valley area. Typically, Renaissance in its use of architectural elements, it was noteworthy for its massive construction and high-relief carved decoration. “Cabinet à deux corps” (bunk wardrobe) with carved human or allegorical figures is typical of the Burgundian style. Moreover, the style favored muscular satyrs, lion heads, and eagles, as opposed to the Ile-de-France school, which defined the style ofHenry II’sfurniture.
![Cabinet, Style of Hugues Sambin (French, Gray ca. 1520–1601 Dijon), Carved, painted, and gilded walnut, French.](http://www.lukedreyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cabinet-1520–1601.jpg)
![内阁内部细节(1520 - 1601)猪圈le of Hugues Sambin.](http://www.lukedreyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Inner-cabinet-detail.jpg)
Images source:https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/195418?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Hugues+Sambin&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=8
![Cabinet, Style of Hugues Sambin (French, Gray ca. 1520–1601 Dijon), Carved, painted, and gilded walnut, French.](http://www.lukedreyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cabinet-1520–1601-2.jpg)
信息来源:
The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Interior Design
http://www.european-furniture-styles.com/Henry-II-Furniture.html