Magnet - Front view of the Renaissance Museum, Château d'Écouen
IS201160
€ 4.90
The Château d'Écouen, located twenty kilometres north of Paris, overlooking the beautiful plain of the French countryside that meets the forest of Chantilly, is today home to the exceptional collections of the National Renaissance Museum. It is an equally exceptional setting for them.
The property of a great Renaissance lord, Anne de Montmorency, who grew up in the intimacy of Francis I, then prospered under the protection of Henri II, Écouen is not a residence like any other: it inscribes in its stones the ambitions and successes of a powerful man who was also a patron of the arts and an aesthete passionate about art.
