Spotlight on the wall paintings of the chapel of Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglais!

Name: Spotlight on the wall paintings of the chapel of Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglais!
Start: 2020-09-19T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-20T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglais

Where did the painters of the Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglaischapel get their inspiration?

19 and 20 September 2020Passed

In a bucolic site, far from any city, the chapel of Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglais has crossed 8 centuries and shows us how his master-builder had imagined it and had it realized. Around 1220 its interior walls were covered with paintings of which a large part has reached us and awaits a respectful restoration. By a study of the details of these paintings one sees clearly on the one hand their pedagogical destination and on the other hand the link of their authors with the currents of thought of their time. This is what we will show you during your visit.

About the location

Chapelle Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglais

Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglais, 14270 Mézidon Vallée d'Auge

Calvados
Normandie

In the hamlet of Sainte-Marie-aux-Anglais there is a character who met the Committee of Public Salvation of the Revolution, who was the confidant of the great mathematician Gaspard Monge and knew all the scholars of that time. We don’t know if he met Emperor Napoleon, but Napoleon gave him the job. He worked with Lazare Carnot and then conducted the Paris opera briefly, in fact, before founding a singing school whose concerts were attended by all of Paris and King Charles X. He knew Berlioz young and was at the origin of the career of the tragic actress Rachel. Come see our exhibition, you will be surprised!