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Photos, Paris: Cluny Museum
The two pictures on the left show medieval sculpture agaist Roman walls inside the museum. The leftmost photo is of the Kings of Judah, torn down from Notre Dame during the Revolution because the Revolutionaries thought they were kings of France. There's an interesting story about their rescue and t...
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Paris Muse :: Tours of Notre Dame and Musée de Cluny
We then cross the river to visit the Cluny Museum, home to an outstanding collection of European medieval art. Much of the original sculptural decoration from Notre Dame is here, such as the heads from the gallery of Kings (removed by mobs during the Revolution). The Cluny boasts other fascinating t...
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WebMuseum: Paris History: The Cluny Museum
architecture. The Hotel stands on the site of the ruins of the Roman baths, dating from the 2nd or early 3rd century. The site was the property of the Abbey of Cluny in Burgandy and on it Abott Jacques d'Ambroise had a building constructed (between 1485 and 1498) to accommodate the Benedictine monks...
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Cluny Museum (museum, Paris, France) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
in Paris, museum of medieval arts and crafts housed in the Hôtel de Cluny, a Gothic mansion built about 1490 as the town residence of the abbots of Cluny. The collection assembled by Alexandre du Sommerard, owner of the mansion from 1833, was the basis of the museum. The French government acqu...
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Cluny Museum: Information and Much More from Answers.com
. The site is that of the ancient Roman baths of Emperor Julian. Acquired by the nation after the Revolution, it was subsequently purchased by the antiquarian Du Sommerard, who installed his collection of art objects of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The city of Paris purchased the entire prop...
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Musée Cluny (Cluny Museum) / Paris, France Photo Gallery by travelingmonkey at pbase.com
The Musée Cluny also known as the Museum of the Middle Ages in the center of Paris, France. This little museum, while smaller and not as popular as the Louvre, offers quite a rich collection of artifacts. It is built on the site of an ancient Roman thermal bath. The waiting lines are not as long as ...
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Cluny Museum - Encyclopedia.com
Cluny Museum 14th- and 15th-century Gothic and Renaissance structure in Paris, built by Pierre de Chaslus, abbot of Cluny, and rebuilt by Jacques d'Ambroise. The site is that of the ancient Roman baths of Emperor Julian. Acquired by the nation after the Revolution, it was subsequently purchased by t...
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