Saint-Maclou

The second of Rouen's hat trick of famous late Gothics is Saint-Maclou parish church, only a couple blocks from the Cathedral. Maclou is a great specimen of flamboyant Gothic. Alas, it is open only a few days of the week and not the day we were there. Nonetheless, here are a few shots from the exterior.

Saint-Maclou

Thus

Judgement

Hellish detail

Excruciating Hellish detail

Doors

Holy Circumcision

Rouen Cathedral

Rouen Cathedral is a mostly flamboyant Gothic, parts of it built from the late 13th century to the 14th, with frequent repairs, renovations, etc., owing to lightning, fires, wars of religion, nation, and ideology. Despite great suffering--seven RAF bombs fell on the building in 1943, and four more US bombs in 1944--the cathedral still stands and is certainly one of the great ones. Especially as immortalized by Monet.

West facade

The TI now owns the building where Monet rented rooms

An easel marks the spot

A bit of the exceptional sculptural program

A Jesse Tree

Nave view

Elevation

South transept

Crossing, under the tower

North transept, stars leading to Bibliotech

View abaft the beam

William Long Sword, son of William (or was it Rollo?)

Rollo himself

Nice windows, some old, some Chartres blue

Thus

Fishmongers' window

Thus

Thus, up closer

Is anybody else warm in here?

Judgement without God

Nice Hell

Original angel/devil on shoulder

Rouen's Musee des Beaux-Arts

It's another fine metropolitan museum, heavy, as one might expect, on Impressionism, but with plenty of other great stuff.

Grand old building

A whole room of Hubert Robert

Ingres' portrait of Madame Aymon

David's portrait of his jailer [geolier]

You know what by you know who

A Sisley Seine landscape

Jardin des Tuileries by Pissarro

Monet Seine scene

Renoir Chrysanthemums

Monet's Rue St. Denis, Fete du 30 Juin 1878

Another Monet Seine

Monet before he was Monet; still-life, 1861

Delacroix self-portrait

How About Them Apples, Rene Sance, 1527

The Monkey Painter

Never miss a Poussin: l'Orage

The Whale and Jonah, Louis Brandin

Obligatory Rubens, Adoration of the Bergers

Caravaggio's Flagellation (2)

Ribera's Zacharie

Velasquez's Democritus

Jan Steen's The Proposition; hmmm...

Gerard David's Virgin among Virgins

Even a Della Robbia

"Italian, 2nd half of 15th century"; not a great Botticelli forgery?

Delacroix's Justice of Trajan

Luminais' Les Enerves de Jumieges; it's complicated