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Chapter 5296 it was only accessible directly from the patron’s apartment through a bridge on the upper level connecting it with the main building, and its lower floor seems to have functioned as ‘stufa’, or heated bathroom. The top floor, on the other hand, functioned as the traditional colombaia or dovecote of an Italian country house; cf. Howard Burns and Pier Nicola Pa- gliara in Giulio Romano 1987, pp. 526–527. 72 It was destroyed by the French in 1554, but restored 1555–1559 under Du Broeucq’s direc- tion, and later extended for the Archdukes Albrecht and Isabella. Jan (‘Velvet’) Brueghel made several paintings of it: in conjunction with the detailed accounts, these provide suf- ficient information for a reconstruction of the original hunting lodge, given in De Jonge 2005. 73 Boogert 1998, pp. 60, 141, 161. However, the immediate model—or at least the inspiration—for the houses of both archdukes was the hunting lodge built in 1546–1549 by their aunt, the dowager Queen Mary of Hungary and Regent of the Netherlands for her broth- er Charles v, at her domain Mariemont a few miles from her country palace at Binche in Hainaut. It was designed by her architect Jacques du Broeucq, whom we have already met as the designer of Boussu, and who also remod- elled Mary’s principal residence at Binche and created its huge banqueting hall. Mariemont consisted of a square box of three stories surrounded by a few lower annexes, set in the middle of an ample hunting preserve [Fig. 5.62].72 Such retreats may have been a family hobby: some years later Charles v him- self had a small house built, again designed by Du Broeucq, in the ‘Warande’, the animal preserve close to his palace at Brussels, for which a three-dimen- sional model of Chambord, in the possession of Cardinal Granvelle, appears to have been consulted.73 Both Archdukes spent periods at the court of Charles and Mary both in Brussels and elsewhere, and must have heard about or even seen something of these projects. Figures 5.63–5.64 Château de la Muette, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1542–1549, elevation and plan from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Les plus excellents bastiments de France, i, 1576.