Post by habiba123820 on Nov 9, 2024 17:04:38 GMT 10
If you thought that tapestries were something “very medieval”, you are in for a surprise when you continue reading. We have to confess that we were surprised, because we also had that idea after seeing them hanging on the walls of castles and palaces across half of Europe. Well, the contemporary tapestries at the Jean-Lurçat Museum in Angers are also hanging in a medieval building… but that is where all the “antiquity” ends.
Jean-Luçart Museum Angers Tapestries Room of the Sick Jump
Jumping in the large sick room, at the Jean-Luçart Museum
Enter the San Juan Hospital without any preconceived ideas and be amazed, just like we were. Our first intention was to visit the 12th-century building , and we confess that once inside, that was what we wordpress web design agency noticed the least. The contemporary tapestries blew our minds. How could there be people dedicated to creating cartoons for tapestries with such designs? Contemporary art on such a classic medium? Could there be anything more disruptive?
Discover that contemporary art is not at odds with medieval art and enjoy the tapestries at the Jean-Lurçat Museum in Angers . You will never forget it.
Saltaconmyadvice
You can't miss the tapestries at the Jean-Luçart Museum , but don't forget to check out the other places to see in Angers to make the most of your time in the city. Among them, the Tapestry of the Apocalypse at the Angers castle , the ideal "starter" for these contemporary tapestries.
The location: the hospital of Saint John and its Angevin Gothic style
As we said, our first intention when visiting the Jean-Lurçat Museum was to enter the Saint John Hospital . We are talking about one of the first hospitals in France , built in the 12th century in the Angevin Gothic style – also known as Plantagenet or Western Gothic.
Jean-Luçart Museum Angers Tapestries Cloister Saint John Hospital
Cloister of the old hospital of San Juan
It is not usually on the list of essentials in Angers, but it still has many of the rooms created when it was founded around 1175: the sick room, the chapel, the cloister, granaries and cellars. The large sick room could accommodate up to 360 beds and, due to the elegance of its columns and decoration, it reminded us a little of the Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona : health is not at odds with art, in the form of architecture in both cases.
Did you know that…?
One of the spaces that remains from the old hospital is the pharmacy or apothecary with a collection of white and blue ceramic jars where medicines were kept.
San Juan Hospital Pharmacy Jars
The old apothecary with the medicine jars
In 1865, a new hospital was built and the building was transformed into the Museum of Antiquities , until 1967 , when the Jean-Lurçat Museum and Museum of Contemporary Tapestries opened .
Le Chant du monde : Jean Lurçat's masterpiece
The jewel in the crown of the Jean-Lurçat Museum, as you might expect with such a name, is Jean Lurçat's greatest work: Le Chant du monde , The Song of the World . We are talking about 10 tapestries –although the cycle is unfinished– that the artist designed from 1957 until his death in 1966. You will notice the influence of the Tapestry of the Apocalypse in some of them, but also a very different and colourful style.
Jean-Luçart Museum Angers Tapestries Room of the Sick Jump
Jumping in the large sick room, at the Jean-Luçart Museum
Enter the San Juan Hospital without any preconceived ideas and be amazed, just like we were. Our first intention was to visit the 12th-century building , and we confess that once inside, that was what we wordpress web design agency noticed the least. The contemporary tapestries blew our minds. How could there be people dedicated to creating cartoons for tapestries with such designs? Contemporary art on such a classic medium? Could there be anything more disruptive?
Discover that contemporary art is not at odds with medieval art and enjoy the tapestries at the Jean-Lurçat Museum in Angers . You will never forget it.
Saltaconmyadvice
You can't miss the tapestries at the Jean-Luçart Museum , but don't forget to check out the other places to see in Angers to make the most of your time in the city. Among them, the Tapestry of the Apocalypse at the Angers castle , the ideal "starter" for these contemporary tapestries.
The location: the hospital of Saint John and its Angevin Gothic style
As we said, our first intention when visiting the Jean-Lurçat Museum was to enter the Saint John Hospital . We are talking about one of the first hospitals in France , built in the 12th century in the Angevin Gothic style – also known as Plantagenet or Western Gothic.
Jean-Luçart Museum Angers Tapestries Cloister Saint John Hospital
Cloister of the old hospital of San Juan
It is not usually on the list of essentials in Angers, but it still has many of the rooms created when it was founded around 1175: the sick room, the chapel, the cloister, granaries and cellars. The large sick room could accommodate up to 360 beds and, due to the elegance of its columns and decoration, it reminded us a little of the Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona : health is not at odds with art, in the form of architecture in both cases.
Did you know that…?
One of the spaces that remains from the old hospital is the pharmacy or apothecary with a collection of white and blue ceramic jars where medicines were kept.
San Juan Hospital Pharmacy Jars
The old apothecary with the medicine jars
In 1865, a new hospital was built and the building was transformed into the Museum of Antiquities , until 1967 , when the Jean-Lurçat Museum and Museum of Contemporary Tapestries opened .
Le Chant du monde : Jean Lurçat's masterpiece
The jewel in the crown of the Jean-Lurçat Museum, as you might expect with such a name, is Jean Lurçat's greatest work: Le Chant du monde , The Song of the World . We are talking about 10 tapestries –although the cycle is unfinished– that the artist designed from 1957 until his death in 1966. You will notice the influence of the Tapestry of the Apocalypse in some of them, but also a very different and colourful style.