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Fécamp is the most important ensemble of ecclesiastical decoration carried out in the first decade of the sixteenth century in France. The tabernacle, the sarcophagus, and the reliefs now grouped above the high altar of the abbey church were commissioned from the Italian Girolamo Viscardi from Genoa. These, though strictly speaking works of sculpture, must have asked as useful models for local architects interested in the new style of decoration. Secondly, the abbot caused stone screens to be made to enclose all the chapels round the choir of the church.
In their general conception the screens follow a Late Gothic type, but the decoration is purely Italian. It is generally believed that these screens were carved by Italian craftsmen working in Normandy.
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