Château de Chenonceau
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Green study
Catherine de' Medici, who became Regent of the kingdom during the minority of King Charles IX, ruled France from the study at Chenonceau. On the 16th century ceiling in its original state, you can make out two intertwining "C"s, and two 16th century Italian cabinets surround the door.
The exceptional 16th century Brussels tapestry known as "To the birthwort", both Gothic and Renaissance, is inspired by the discovery of the Americas, and their fauna and flora: it contains Peruvian silver pheasants, pineapples, orchids, pomegranates, animals and vegetables which until then were unknown in Europe. Its original green colour has been turning to blue with age.
On the walls, a collection of paintings of which the most important are:
- Tintoretto The Queen of Sheba and «Portrait of a Doge
- Jacob Jordaens Ivory Catchfly
- Hendrik Goltzius Samson and the Lion
- Jean Jouvenet Jesus chasing the merchants from the Temple
- Bartholomeus Spranger Allegorical Scene painted on metal
- Paolo Veronese Study of a woman's head
- Nicolas Poussin The flight to Egypt
- Anthony van Dyck Child with Fruits
