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Outside Paris great activity existed in decorative and religious sculpture in the middle decades of the sixteenth century. Many town houses and chateaux still show fine roundels with busts in full relief which derive in many ways from the Italian lower relief medallions of the earlier parts of the century, but have a refinement and delicacy which is peculiarly French. The museum of Lyons contains this fine example, which comes from the façade of a house at Vienne. It probably dates from just before the middle of the century but still shows traces of the manner of Francesco Laurana, who had worked in Provence at the end of the fifteenth century.
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