-Doors, windows, and stairways are important features. Large, prominent chimney pieces are focal points. The projecting hood may be decorated with classic and Gothic details, coats of arms, and/or royal and period motifs. It does not have classical proportions, but entablatures, pilasters, and columns shapes the overall design. Decoration is concentrated on the floors, walls, and ceilings. Room use is flexible and has few furnishings.
-The first French Renaissance interiors were created at Fontainebleau in the 1530s by Italian artists Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio.
-Characteristics include slender nymphs with clinging drapery, garlands, scrolls, strapwork, grotesques and stucco figures. There were not heavily followed; interiors continue to feature Gothic and classical elements.
-Beamed ceilings are embellished with carving and/or brightly colored stripes, arabesques, or other repeating motifs. Plaster ceilings are usually left plain.
-Characteristics include slender nymphs with clinging drapery, garlands, scrolls, strapwork, grotesques and stucco figures. There were not heavily followed; interiors continue to feature Gothic and classical elements.
-Beamed ceilings are embellished with carving and/or brightly colored stripes, arabesques, or other repeating motifs. Plaster ceilings are usually left plain.
-Characteristics of French Renaissance Furniture:
*Panels were beautifully carved with graceful figures.
*Grotesque, arabesque, rinceauand classical motifs were usual within the period.
*Flemish scrolls were conpicuous.
*Stretchers were set-out as X form with a vase form or turned finial placed at the intersection.
*Solidly built; with the structure of Gothic period that has been continued to be used with Italian Renaissance ornamentation.
*Carving, inlay work, turning, gilding and painting were the main methods of decorating
*Panels were beautifully carved with graceful figures.
*Grotesque, arabesque, rinceauand classical motifs were usual within the period.
*Flemish scrolls were conpicuous.
*Stretchers were set-out as X form with a vase form or turned finial placed at the intersection.
*Solidly built; with the structure of Gothic period that has been continued to be used with Italian Renaissance ornamentation.
*Carving, inlay work, turning, gilding and painting were the main methods of decorating
