Monday, July 11, 2016 (continued)
In the Latin Quarter, we made our way to Hôtel de Cluny (rebuilt 1485-1500, by Jacques d'Amboise) as a town house for abbots. In 1883, Alexandre du Sommerard bought the place to house his art collection. It became a museum in 1843, and was named Musée de Cluny, now officially the
Musée National du Moyen-Âge/National Museum of the Middle Ages.
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| Hôtel de Cluny |
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| Well (early 16C) |
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| Tower used as an observatory (18C) |
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| Altarpiece (early 16C) (KSS) |
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Stained glass from Ste-Chapelle (13C) showing a horned
demon and henchman carrying off a girl in red (KSS) |
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| Carved altarpiece panels (15C English) |
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Original statues of the Kings of Judah from Notre Dame Cathedral
(1220-1230); the heads were cut off by French revolutionaries
who mistook them for French kings (KSS) |
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| The heads had been collected and buried, and not found until 1977 (KSS) |
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| Adam (c. 1260) from Notre Dame Cathedral |
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One of twelve capitals (c. 1030-1040) from
the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés,
depicting Daniel in the lion's den (KSS) |
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| Carved ivory box with prophets and saints (c. 1200, Cologne) (KSS) |
Went down into the ruins of the
Thermes Gallo-Romains de Lutèce/Gallo-Roman Baths of Paris.
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The frigidarium/cold bath (200 CE) with the highest
Roman vault in France, which used criss cross arch
or groin vault technology (KSS) |
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Mosaic remnant of Cupid riding a dolphin
(late 2 to early 3C) (KSS) |
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Column fragment inscribed TIB.CAESARE, indicating it was
built in the time of Emperor Tiberius (14-37 CE), the
oldest man-made object in Paris (KSS) |
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Tapestry La Dame à la Licorne/The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestry
(c. 1500 CE); this is the final of six panels, titled A Mon Seul Désir/
My Only Desire, made at a time when the Renaissance is emerging |
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| The horn of the unicorn (narwhal!) (KSS) |
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| St Stephen Tapestry (c. 1500) |
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Oh, dear, St John the Baptist (c. 1370-1390)
is picking his nose... (KSS) |
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| Vendage/Grape Harvest (early 16C) |
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After the museum, we stopped at a café
for drinks; a Kronenbourg 1664 beer and Orangina |
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| Window of the Southern Tunisian pastry shop |
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A Wallace fountain (1872), one of about 80 in Paris,
designed and financed by philanthropist
Sir Richard Wallace, as public drinking
fountains for all (KSS) |
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Fontaine du Palmier/Palm Fountain (1806-1808)
designed by the engineer François-Jean Bralle (KSS) |
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Palm Fountain statue of Victory by
Louis-Simon Boizot, with the palm leaves
commemorating Napoléon's
Egyptian Campaign (KSS) |
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| Spitting sphinxes by Henri Alfred Jacquemart (KSS) |
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| The whole of the Palais de Justice complex (KSS) |
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Tour St-Jacques/St James Tower (1509-1525),
all that remains of a church destroyed during
the French Revolution |
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Probably St Mark, at Église Saint-Merri (1515-1612);
note the wiring: is he secured by an alarm system? (KSS) |
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| Chuuuttt!/Shhh! (2011) by Jean-Francois Perroy aka Jef Aérosol (KSS) |
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| Refueling jet and two fighter planes (KSS) |
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French Air Force Rafale jets, perhaps practicing
for a Bastille Day flyover (KSS) |
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Place Igor Stravinsky fountain (1983) by Jean Tinguely (kinetic ones) and
Niki de Saint Phalle (colorful ones) inspired by Stravinsky's Rites of Spring (KSS) |
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| Chalk artist (everyone is looking at the jets passing overhead) |
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| Jewelry vendors at Place Georges Pompidou |
Next: Centre Georges Pompidou.
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