Apothecary and Administrators Room Tour

Name: Visita al boticario y a la sala de administración
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Hôtel-Dieu de Cluny

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

LAMORT Gilbert

Visit: - of the pharmacy and its different premises presenting the different collections of earthenware pots, porcelain and glass as well as other objects used in pharmacy: stills, scales, mortars and glassware, - the administrators' room with its gallery of paintings, the most remarkable of which is the painting on both sides attributed to Grégoire GUERARD (circa 1625) representing on the one hand the Holy Women at the Tomb and on the other hand Saint George slaying the Dragon and Saint Catherine.

About the location

Hôtel-Dieu de Cluny

Centre Hospitalier du Clunisois, 13 place du Dr Charles Pleindoux, 71250 Cluny

Saône-et-Loire
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Built at the beginning of the XVIIIth century, the Hôtel-Dieu of Cluny was raised(brought up) according to a simple and functional architecture. It consists of a main building(ship) receiving in the centre the chapel and, on both(all) sides, both rooms of the sick. You can admire in the chapel the splendid marble statues of Carrare of the Mausoleum which the cardinal de Bouillon wished to build in the abbey of Cluny and many more remarkable furniture elements resulting(coming) from the abbey (altar, Easter candlestick, tabernacle of brother Placide). In the south wing, dating the XVIIIth century, you will be able also to admire the room of the administrators(directors), decorated with numerous paintings(boards) and Apothicairerie Empire, presenting a very beautiful collection of pharmaceutical earthenwares, with tin and with copper. During visit, you will be able also to discover the remarkable furniture heritage of the Hôtel-Dieu