Le château médiéval d'Anjony

On our left we discover the Château d'Anjony This fortress perched on a small promontory is itself very tall Nearly 40 meters in height Very impressive nothing escaped him The Anjony family built this fortress in the 15th century At the request of King Charles VII with the mission of ensuring order against the bandits and mercenaries who were active in the region The Hanoublah dates back to the 15th century with this mountain fortress which has the particularity of being composed of a keep A single room on each floor a very large room surrounded by four corner towers which makes a very compact whole Very military and has been in its prime since about 1430 The noble room is on the upper floor That is extraordinary She has been decorated since the 16th century with frescoes inspired by chivalric literature It is the jewel of the castle decorated with this very old legend from the High Middle Ages called the Legend of the Knights And the Knights are characters from our story but in the broadest sense of the term one could call it The Mediterranean civilization that is to say it features three Christians three Jews and three ancients These legendary heroes are all depicted on their horses Among them is Emperor Charlemagne next to King David and finally Alexander the Great Two characters are seated on either side of the fireplace To the left Michel d'Anjoni the ancestor of Robert He had this set designed to impress his future wife Germaine de Foix depicted here in a court dress Germaine de Foix for him was a very prestigious marriage because the Foix family was a very powerful family There was a branch of the Foix family in our high Cantal That's why she was able to marry a local lord When the frescoes are completed the entire influence of the Italian Renaissance arrives in France The setting is theatrical A style very popular with Queen Catherine de' Medici which would be represented here as a medallion She brought the dynamism of the Italian Renaissance with her and also brought hundreds of artists to Paris to help with this dynamism So the Italian atmosphere was there and this influence reached Anjoni and is reflected in this piece