Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
Reims where 33 Kings of France were crowned in it’s Cathedral including Louis XIV & Louis XVI. It was so severely bombed in 1914 that 70% of the city was destroyed and only seven houses remained intact. The above drawings for the facade sculptures of one of these were commissioned by a rich bourgeois of the time. The sculptures count among the few examples of secular imagery in Medieval art. The structure is now owned by the Taittinger Family of the exquisite “Comtes de Champagne” Champagne.
In 2021 we helped restore the legendary “La Maison des Musiciens” on the Rue des Tambours. Here you now see the five XIIIth century musiciens playing the flute, tambourine, the kid ( an instrument fashioned from goatskin), the harp and the fiddle.
The rich Bourgeois in the midst of his musiciens, ever the hopeful Patrician…
