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17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
Free. Free entrance.
September 2022
Saturday 17
15:00 - 17:00
Sunday 18
15:00 - 17:00
8 to 99 years old

Eglise Saint-Sauveur

9 place de l'église, 46120 Saint-Macaire
  • Gironde
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Presentation of the church’s wall paintings

Discover the history of the exceptionally well-preserved murals of the Church of Saint-Sauveur.
17 and 18 September 2022Passed
Conditions
Free. Free entrance.
©Laurent Sorbé

Discover the history of the exceptionally well-preserved murals of the Church of Saint-Sauveur.

Wall paintings were placed on the vaults of the choir in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Jesuits painted them with a starry blue sky of gold, judging them too gothic. They were cleared in 1825 on the initiative of the parish but clumsily restored.
A restoration, conducted in 2008 under the control of the DRAC, led to the double observation: the original iconography was respected at 90% and the color palette modified (azurite blue disappeared in favor of gray white).

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Spectacle / Lecture
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Gratuit

About the location

Eglise Saint-Sauveur
9 place de l'église, 46120 Saint-Macaire
  • Gironde
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine
12th-14th-15th century. Church of a former Benedictine priory placed under the authority of Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux, the primitive church, where the body of Saint Macaire had been buried, was replaced by a new building consecrated in 1040\. Entirely rebuilt in the middle of the 12th century, the church had to endure the vagaries of the Hundred Years Wars and the Sling. In 1825, the painter Sandré retouched the paintings of the 14th century. In the 19th century, important restorations were carried out. [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapamer_er?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_1=cmer1&VALUE_1=Saint%2dMacaire&FIELD_2=cmer2&VALUE_2=&FIELD_3=cmer3&VALUE_3=&FIELD_4=cmer4&VALUE_4=&FIELD_5=cmer5&VALUE_5=&FIELD_6=Appellation&VALUE_6=&FIELD_7=cmer6&VALUE_7=&FIELD_8=Date%20protection&VALUE_8=&NUMBER=12&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28Saint%2dMacaire%29%20%3aLOCA%2cPLOC%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%244P&SPEC=9&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=50&MAX3=50&DOM=All](http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapamer_fr?ACT
Tags
Édifice religieux, Monument historique
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