Conference on the restoration of the crypt fresco

Name: Conférence sur la restauration de la fresque de la crypte
Start: 2023-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Collégiale Saint-Ours

Mathilde Buron, a 5th year student at the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), will present the results of her historical research and her restoration work on the fresco depicting the...

Dimanche 17 septembre 2023, 15h00Passé

Ville de Loches

Mathilde Buron, a 5th year student at the National Heritage Institute (INP), will present the results of her historical research and restoration work on the fresco representing Saint Brice. This fresco, once located in the crypt of the collegiate church, was deposited in the early 1980s. It was previously exhibited in the college. Mathilde Buron will present her meticulous work before the fresco returns to Loches in the fall. RDV: Collégiale Saint-Ours

À propos du lieu

Collégiale Saint-Ours

Place Charles-VII 37600 Loches

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

Based(Established) by the counts of Anjou, the collegiate dates for the main part of the XIth and XIIth centuries. She(It) is exceptional by the mode of couvrement of the nave (two hollow octagonal pyramids) and by its remarkable polychromé portal(gate) of years 1150-1160\. Parish church since Revolution, her shelters the grave of Agnès Sorel, favorite of the king Charles VII.