Nancy, capital of the dukes of Lorraine - New collision(hanging)

Name: Nancy, capital of the dukes of Lorraine - New collision(hanging)
Start: 2018-09-15T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Église des Cordeliers - Chapelle Ducale

Discover the history(story) of the duchies of Lorraine and of Bar across a new collision(hanging)

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

Conditions

Free

Église des Cordeliers, Nancy (c) Palais des ducs de Lorraine- Musée lorrain - photo Ville de Nancy

to accompany its renovation and the closure(lock) of the permanent collections, the palace of the dukes of Lorraine presents within the church of the Cordeliers a new collision(hanging) illustrating the history(story) of the duchies of Lorraine and of Bar.
Edifiée at the end of the XVth century further to the victory of the duke come back to life II of Lorraine against the duke of Bourgogne Charles the Bold, the church of the Cordeliers becomes the dynastic necropolis of the House of Lorraine and an emblematic place of ducal power.
Many presented works, paintings(boards), sculptures, stained-glass windows and works of art redraw the five centuries of of Lorraine history(story) within the most old(former) church of Nancy. Exhibition(Exposure) also allows to reveal to the visitors the model of Nancy in 1611, increased by digital projections which will plunge you at the heart of the capital of duchies.

About the location

Église des Cordeliers - Chapelle Ducale

66 Grande rue, 54000 Nancy

Meurthe-et-Moselle
Grand Est

Church of the Cordeliers having taken place under the protection of the Virgin(Virgo) of the Annunciation during the battle of Nancy, the duke come back to life II decides to establish, near the new palace, a church which is devoted to him(her). Cordeliers' convent is built close by, on the location of the old(former) stables of the palace. Of a big(great) sobriety, the church Saint François des Cordelier spreads(displays) an unique(only) nave, 73 metres long, lined with side chapels receiving the funerary monuments of certain dukes of Lorraine. The duke dies in 1508 and is the first duke buried in the church. The church of the Cordeliers, always devoted to the Catholic religion, is a part of the Lorraine Museum today. It is possible to see works there come from all Lorraine, as wooden stalls resulting(coming) from the Abbey of Salival and dating of 1691, installed(settled) in the chorus(choir).
Chapel Ducale Voulue by the duke Charles III, the "round" chapel of the Cordeliers is built under the reign of his son Henry II between 1609 and 1612, undoubtedly on the plans of the Italian architect Jean-Baptiste Stabili. Building with centered plan, the chapel is topped with a polygonal dome adorned with 386 boxes sculpted by angels, by stars and by the figures of the dukes Charles III, Henry II, François II and Charles IV, due to the sculptor Siméon Drouin (on 1591? – On 1651). The internal decoration(set) of the chapel is finished(ended) in the 18th century by François III (François Ier de Hapsburg), last hereditary duke of Lorraine, who makes add both orders stacked(superimposed) by columns, cenotaphs and high altar. Seriously mutilated in Revolution, the chapel is restored by the family of Hapsburg-Lorraine in 1817\.