Architectural visits: visit of the Saint-Jean hospital

Name: Visites architectures : visite de l'hôpital Saint-Jean
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine - Hôpital Saint-Jean

With François Comte, curator of heritage, discover the architecture of the St Jean Hospital and its cloister

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine - Hôpital Saint-Jean

4, boulevard Arago, 49100 Angers

Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire

Founded in 1175 with the support of Henri II Plantagenet according to a hospital program common in the Middle Ages (reception of all the needy; secular management, taken over by the Daughters of Charity in 1639), the Saint John Hospital provided a medical function until 1854\. It has been a museum since 1874\. The Patients' Room, a hall with three equal naves, is one of the points of development of the Angevin Gothic of the end XII°, by the quality of the proportions and the elegance of the structures (pointed vaults with thin ribs, very convex; sobriety of capitals with water leaves; slender columns). In 1967, it became the site of the exhibition of the «Chant du Monde», a group of tapestries by Jean Lurçat created in 1937 in homage to the «Apocalypse»; by extension, a museum of contemporary tapestry is installed in the outbuildings XVIII°.