Focus on Museums brochure

Name: Brochure « Focus sur les musées »
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Musée Saint-Loup)

Published by the Service Animation du patrimoine as part of the Ville d'art et d'histoire label, this Focus brochure looks back at the history and architecture of the four municipal museums. Ancie...

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Musées de Troyes / Anthony Cardoso

Published by the Service Animation du patrimoine as part of the Ville d'art et d'histoire label, this Focus brochure focuses on the history and architecture of the four municipal museums. Former abbey, episcopal palace, apothecary, 16th century residence… Trojan museums have all had a previous life… before becoming the setting for remarkable collections. Chronology, construction secrets, architectural details… Discover these sixteen richly illustrated pages.
This brochure is distributed free of charge in municipal museums, at the Jacques-Chirac media library or at the Animation du patrimoine service by prior appointment. It is also downloadable on www.vpah-troyes.fr

À propos du lieu

Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Musée Saint-Loup)

61 rue de la Cité, 10000 Troyes

Aube
Grand Est

The old(former) abbey, built in the XVIIth and XVIIIth century s., shelters the museum of Fine Arts, of regional archaeology and the Museum. Regional Archaeology: first palaeolithic populatings till the beginning of Middle Ages, of Stone Age (dolmen of Frécul) via(including) the age of metals (remarkable Celtic time(period): falls to tank of Bouranton, golden(in gold) bracelet of Molesmes), then the roman time (Apollo de Vaupoisson, domus of Chaillouet) up to High Middle Ages (treasure of Pouan). Natural sciences: an unique(only) Museum in Champagne-Ardenne. Focus on local fauna(crowd): mammals (otter, lynx, wildcat) and visible birds around the natural lakes of the forest of East (ash crane, black stork) as well as sorts(species) from the whole world: a diversity of fauna(crowd).

This new route combines nearly 300 works, small paintings and monumental works, known masterpieces and restored and unpublished works from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. This presentation renews the look at this exceptional collection of French and European painting, from knowledgeable collectors, highlighting artistic exchanges between France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, England ... with Giotto, Malouel, Spranger, Vasari, Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck, Champaigne, Bellotto, Mignard, Le Brun, Watteau, Natoire, Boucher, Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Greuze, Vien, David, Corot ...