Museums in Lyon - Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon, Centre D'Histoire de La Resistance Et de La Deportation (Paperback)

Chapters: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon, Centre D'histoire de La Resistance et de La Deportation, African Museum of Lyon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon ( Musee des beaux-arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. It is housed near place des Terreaux in a former Benedictine convent of the 17th and 18th centuries. It has been restored from 1988 to 1998 and despite these important restoration works it remained open to visitors. Its collections range from ancient Egypt antiquities to the Modern art period and make the museum one of the most important in Europe. It hosts important exhibitions of art: recently there have been exhibitions of works by Georges Braque and Henri Laurens (second half of 2005), then one on the work of Theodore Gericault (April to July 2006). Until 1792, the buildings belonged to the royal abbaye des Dames de Saint-Pierre, built in the 17th century. The abbess always came from the high French nobility and here received the personalities of the kingdom. The institution had a particularly aristocratic slant, as is shown by its renovation by Louis XIV of France in the 17th and 18th centuries. The present state of the palais Saint-Pierre is largely down to these renovations, which included the construction of the baroque refectory and monumental honour-staircase, said to be by Thomas Blanchet. The refectory has been renovated since then and now serves as the reception for group visits, as well as housing two monumental paintings on the subject of dining, The Multiplication of the Loaves and The Last Supper, both by Pierre-Louis Cretey. The rest of its current scheme was designed by Nicolas Bidaut and Simon Guillaume and is made up o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20308710