Come and discover the Sixtine de la Seille

Name: Venez découvrir la Sixtine de la Seille
Start: 2021-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Martin

Step into this church and marvel at the 1540 murals.

17 - 19 septembre 2021Passé

©Sixtine de la Seille

Step into this church and marvel at the 1540 murals.

In the flamboyant Gothic style, this church is completely painted and covered with 15th and 16th century murals.
At an unknown time, they were covered with a painting. This one certainly contributed to their preservation. It was in 1845, during a cleansing, that they were discovered to the great joy of Abbé Schnabel, then parish priest. The Messin painter Charles André Malardot was commissioned to restore them. The work lasted 20 years.
The church was listed as a Historical Monument on May 9, 1881 by the Germans. A very beautiful restoration from January 2002 to December 2004 consisting only of a cleaning, gave all its brilliance to these paintings.

À propos du lieu

Église Saint-Martin

Place de l’Église, 57420 Sillegny

Moselle
Grand Est

The church holy Martin de Sillegny is of style Flamboyant Gothic. She(It) keeps(preserves) wall paintings(paints) dating of 1540, rediscovered in 1845 by the abbot Schnabel. Their restoration(catering) lasted 20 years. On May 9th, 1881 the church was registered on the inventory of historic monuments.