MONKS' CHAPEL

Name: CHAPELLE DES MOINES
Start: 2022-09-17T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle des Moines

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, rediscover for free the chapel of the monks of Berzé-la-Ville and its splendid 12th century mural paintings.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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Built at the initiative of Hugues de Semur, abbot of Cluny and builder of the large Romanesque abbey church, the monks' chapel is the witness of the medieval priory. The richness and finesse of its painted decoration illustrate the know-how of the artists of the greatest workshops of the twelfth century at the time of the apogee of the Abbey of Cluny.

À propos du lieu

Chapelle des Moines

Rue de la Chapelle, 71960 Berzé-la-Ville

Saône-et-Loire
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

The chapel was built at the beginning of the 12th century on the initiative of the abbot of Cluny Hugues de Semur, builder of Cluny III. It was part of a priory of which it is today the only vestige. It consists of a low chapel that still retains many traces of painted decor and a high chapel famous for its unique wall paintings. The apse is painted on its height: on the vault, Christ, surrounded by the apostles, transmits his law and hands the keys to Saint Peter and delivers it to Saint Paul, who are the two patron saints of the abbey of Cluny; at the windows are represented the wise virgins and the foolish virgins as well as the martyrs of Saint Blaise and Saint Vincent; in the lower register are figured the little known eastern and western saints but whose relics were kept in the treasure of the abbey of Cluny and which were inscribed in its liturgical calendar. These decorations are today the only testimonies of the monumental painting of the heyday of the abbey of Cluny. After th