Saturday, August 15, 2015

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