Romanesque Langon Chapel

by Sarah Loft

Title

Romanesque Langon Chapel

Artist

Sarah Loft

Medium

Photograph - Digitally Painted Photograph

Description

This chapel, originally in France, is now part of the Cloisters Museum in New York City.

Per Wikipedia: The Cloisters is a museum in Upper Manhattan, New York City specializing in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, and is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its early collection was built up by the American sculptor, art dealer and collector George Grey Barnard, and acquired by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1925. Rockefeller extended the collection and in 1931 purchased the site at Washington Heights and contracted the design for the Cloisters building.

The Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Bourg de Digne chapel dates from c. 1126. The Pontault Chapter house consists of a single aisle nave, projecting transepts is taken from a small parish Benedictine church of c. 1115 from Notre Dame de Pontaut, then in neglect and disrepair. When acquired its upper level was a storage place for tobacco. About three quarters of its original stonework was relocated to New York. Moutiers-Saint-Jean was sacked, burned and rebuilt a number of times.

In 1797 the abbey was sold as rubble for rebuilding. It lay in ruin for decades, with the sculpture severely defaced, before the door's transfer to New York, where it is now situated between the Romanesque Hall and the Langon Chapel. The doorway was the main portal of the abbey, was probably built as the south transept door, facing the cloister. The sculptured forms of the donors flanking either side of the doorway, probably represent the early Frankish kings Clovis I (d. 511), who converted to Christianity c 496, and his son Chlothar I (d. 561).

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Featured in the ABC group, June 2017.

Featured in the Churches group, June 2017.

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June 6th, 2017

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