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Diane de Poitiers (9 January 1500 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and courtier who wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status.
The set of tapestry hangings woven for the château, in Paris, to cartoons by Jean Cousin, forming a History of Diana in compliment to Diane de Poitiers, is now widely scattered; [18] it set a precedent for suites of Diana-themed tapestries that remained popular into the 18th century. [19] The elements were reinstalled at Anet after World War II.
The sculpture was a part of the fountain in Diane de Poitiers's Château d'Anet built by Philibert de L'Orme from 1547. [3] The ensemble, as engraved in its original location by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and as shown in a 16th-century drawing at the Louvre, differs from its current form.
The Château de Chenonceau (French: [ʃɑto də ʃənɔ̃so]) is a French château spanning the river Cher, near the small village of Chenonceaux, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire. [1] It is one of the best-known châteaux of the Loire Valley. [2] The estate of Chenonceau is first mentioned in writing in the 11th century. [3]
Françoise de Poitiers (b. 1499), who married Antoine III de Clermont, 1st Count of Clermont-Tonnerre, son of Bernardin de Clermont Tonnerre and Françoise de Sassenage. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Diane de Poitiers (1500–1566), who married Louis de Brézé, Seigneur d'Anet , a grandson of King Charles VII by his mistress Agnès Sorel , [ 8 ] in 1515.
Diana the Huntress (French: Diane chasseresse) is an oil-on-canvas painting by an anonymous artist of the School of Fontainebleau. Painted in about 1550, it is a mythical representation of Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of King Henry II, in the guise of the goddess Diana. [1] It is in the Louvre, which acquired it in 1840. [2]
Diane is a 1956 American historical drama film about the life of Diane de Poitiers, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by David Miller, and produced by Edwin H. Knopf from a screenplay by Christopher Isherwood based on a story by John Erskine.
Françoise de Brézé was born around 1518, the eldest child of Diane de Poitiers and Louis de Brézé, [1] seigneur d'Anet, Count of Maulévrier. Françoise was descended from French royalty through her paternal grandmother, Charlotte de Brézé, an illegitimate daughter of Charles VII by his mistress Agnès Sorel.