Hector Sohier was a 16th-century Normand architect. He is the author of many buildings in Caen. He died around 1560. Sohier was not only a skilled builder, an original and resourceful mind, he still possessed to the highest degree the art of ensuring the admiration of his works over the centuries by inoculating them with the secret of beauty. Every detail in Saint-Pierre shows the most delicate taste and perhaps never has wealth possessed so much seductive charm. See instead these delicately carved friezes, where common objects almost vulgar are transformed by the whims of imagination, these historized capitals, which, approaching antiquity, have nothing of the classic coldness, these niches so brilliantly decorated, that they seem made to receive we do not know which admirable statues, th
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| - Hector Sohier was a 16th-century Normand architect. He is the author of many buildings in Caen. He died around 1560. Sohier was not only a skilled builder, an original and resourceful mind, he still possessed to the highest degree the art of ensuring the admiration of his works over the centuries by inoculating them with the secret of beauty. Every detail in Saint-Pierre shows the most delicate taste and perhaps never has wealth possessed so much seductive charm. See instead these delicately carved friezes, where common objects almost vulgar are transformed by the whims of imagination, these historized capitals, which, approaching antiquity, have nothing of the classic coldness, these niches so brilliantly decorated, that they seem made to receive we do not know which admirable statues, th (en)
- Hector Sohier est un architecte normand du XVIe siècle. Il est l'auteur de nombreux bâtiments caennais. Il serait mort vers 1560. « Sohier, n'était pas seulement un constructeur habile, un esprit original et plein de ressources, il possédait encore au suprême degré l'art d'assurer à ses œuvres l'admiration des siècles en leur inoculant le secret de la beauté. Chaque détail à Saint-Pierre témoigne du goût le plus délicat et jamais peut-être la richesse n'a possédé autant de charme séducteur. Voyez plutôt ces frises délicatement sculptées, où des objets usuels presque vulgaires sont transformés par les caprices de l'imagination, ces chapiteaux historiés, qui, en se rapprochant de l'antiquité, n'ont rien de la froideur classique, ces niches si brillamment ornées, qu'elles semblent faites pour (fr)
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| - Hector Sohier was a 16th-century Normand architect. He is the author of many buildings in Caen. He died around 1560. Sohier was not only a skilled builder, an original and resourceful mind, he still possessed to the highest degree the art of ensuring the admiration of his works over the centuries by inoculating them with the secret of beauty. Every detail in Saint-Pierre shows the most delicate taste and perhaps never has wealth possessed so much seductive charm. See instead these delicately carved friezes, where common objects almost vulgar are transformed by the whims of imagination, these historized capitals, which, approaching antiquity, have nothing of the classic coldness, these niches so brilliantly decorated, that they seem made to receive we do not know which admirable statues, these hanging keys where are sometimes spread out in miniatures of true monuments.... And all this is so to speak only the ordinary baggage, the more careful implementation of the decoration system generally practiced. But where the originality of Hector Sohier shines, it is in the composition of the buttresses and the balustrades, in these marvellous pinnacles with flared bases and multiplied bulges, which rise at each corner of the terraces, and give to the apse of Saint-Pierre this seal of nobility and elegance which makes its right reputation . - (1838-1894), director of the Société française d'archéologie. (en)
- Hector Sohier est un architecte normand du XVIe siècle. Il est l'auteur de nombreux bâtiments caennais. Il serait mort vers 1560. « Sohier, n'était pas seulement un constructeur habile, un esprit original et plein de ressources, il possédait encore au suprême degré l'art d'assurer à ses œuvres l'admiration des siècles en leur inoculant le secret de la beauté. Chaque détail à Saint-Pierre témoigne du goût le plus délicat et jamais peut-être la richesse n'a possédé autant de charme séducteur. Voyez plutôt ces frises délicatement sculptées, où des objets usuels presque vulgaires sont transformés par les caprices de l'imagination, ces chapiteaux historiés, qui, en se rapprochant de l'antiquité, n'ont rien de la froideur classique, ces niches si brillamment ornées, qu'elles semblent faites pour recevoir nous ne savons quelles admirables statues, ces clefs pendantes où s'étalent parfois en miniatures de véritables monuments... Et tout cela n'est pour ainsi dire que le bagage ordinaire, la mise en œuvre plus soignée du système de décoration généralement pratiqué. Mais où éclate l'originalité d'Hector Sohier, c'est dans la composition des contreforts et des balustrades, dans ces merveilleux pinacles à base évasée et à renflements multipliés, qui se dressent à chaque angle des terrasses, et donnent à l'abside de Saint-Pierre ce cachet de noblesse et d'élégance qui fait sa juste renommée. » - Léon Palustre (1838-1894), directeur de la Société française d'archéologie (fr)
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