Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.
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Wednesday 25 September 2024

Albi Cathedral, France (Part Eight).



English: The Choir and Rood Screen of Albi Cathedral.
Français: Chœur et jubé (Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi).
Magyar: Kórus és szentélyrekesztő,
Szent Cecília-katedrális, Albi.
Polski: Chór kapłański oraz łuk tęczowy
(katedra Św. Cecylii w Albi we Francji).
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)


Only a small amount of Mediæval Stained-Glass remains in the Windows of the Cathedral; most of the Windows date to the 19th-Century and 20th-Century.

The Chapel of The Holy Cross has two Windows from the 15th-Century, representing Saint Helen, carrying a large Cross, and King Louis IX, holding a Cross-Reliquary.

Some pieces of earlier Glass, including the Coat-of-Arms of Bishop Beraud de Fargues, dated between 1320 and 1330, are incorporated into more modern Windows.[23]


English: Relics and Statue of Sainte-Cécile, dating from 1599, in Albi Cathedral. The Statue is meant to represent the body as it was found in the coffin. The orginal Statue is located at the Church of Saint Cecilia in Rome. Albi Cathedral, Dedicated to the Saint, has a faithful replica.
Français: Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi - Reliques et statue de Sainte-Cécile - La statue bien connue de Maderno , datant de 1599, est censée représenter le corps tel qu'il fut retrouvé dans le cercueil. Cette statue se trouve à l'église Sainte-Cécile à Rome ; la cathédrale d’Albi, dédiée à la Sainte, en possède une fidèle réplique.
Italiano : Si ritiene che la famosa statua di Maderno, risalente al 1599, rappresenti il ​​corpo così come è stato trovato nella bara. Questa statua si trova nella Chiesa di S. Cecilia a Roma; La Cattedrale di Albi, dedicata al Santo, ne conserva una fedele replica.
Photo: 4 August 2021.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)

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The main Organ of the Cathedral is located on the Upper Level of the Nave, at the West End, above the mural of The Last Judgement.

It was commissioned in 1734 by Bishop de la Croix de Castries from the craftsman Christophe Moucherel.

It replaced the first Organ, dating to the end of the 15th-Century, and a second smaller Organ, which had been attached to the Rood Screen.


English: Chapel of Saint Marguerite, Albi Cathedral.
Français: Décor géométrique des chapelles hautes 
et basses de la cathédrale d'Albi. Décor assez mystérieux. Certains critiques y voient des anamorphoses, parfois 
à sous-entendus érotiques.
Photo: 26 October 2018.
Source: Own work.
Author: Franzrycou
(Wikimedia Commons)


The 1734 Organ re-used some of the Pipes of the first Organ. The decoration atop the Pipes of the Organs includes, at the top, statues of Angels with wings spread and with Trumpets, heralding Saint Cécile and Saint Valerien. Below these, are two White Unicorns with the Coats-of-Arms of the Bishop, and, below these, five towers of Pipes, crowned with statues of Angel-Musicians. The Cornice of the Organ rests on the shoulders of two sculpted Atlantes.[24]

The Organ was rebuilt and restored several times in the 18th-Century and 19th-Century; it was radically rebuilt in 1903 into a more Romantic Style, while preserving the older Pipes, above. Between 1977 and 1981, it was rebuilt, again, restoring its original Classical Style.[24]

The Treasury of the Cathedral is a rare example of a Cathedral Treasury located in its original place. It is a Vaulted Chamber attached to the Disambulatory of the Nave on the North Side of the Cathedral, above the Vestiaire and adjoining the Sacristy, which was constructed in the Late-13th-Century, and was used to keep the Church Archives and precious objects.


English: Decoration in the Choir, Albi Cathedral.
Français: Clôture du chœur
de la cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi.
Photo: 8 June 2012.
Source: Own work.
Author: GO69
(Wikimedia Commons)


It has a series of Niches, closed with Iron Grills. It was remade into a museum in 2001. It originally contained the Cathedral’s most precious Relic, a fragment of The True Cross, which disappeared in 1792 during The French Revolution, at the same time that the Cathedral High Altar and Silver Retable were destroyed.

The objects displayed now are largely those that were preserved in the tombs of the Bishops, as well as more recent objects made in the Early-19th-Century.

It also contains a collection of paintings, including a polyptyque of scenes from the life of The Virgin and Child from the 16th-Century, with a gilded background, and paintings of the life of Saint Cecilia, the Patron Saint of the Cathedral.



English: Part of Albi Cathedral’s Quadripartite 
Cross-Ribbed Vault thirty metres above the ground. 
Painted between 1509 and 1512.
Deutsch: Teilansicht eines vierteiligen Kreuzrippengewölbes, 30 m über Bodenniveau, in den Jahren 1509 bis 1512 ausgemalt, Kathedrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi, Frankreich.
Français: Détail d'une voûte sur croisée d'ogives quadripartite située à 30m du sol, peintes entre 1509 et 1512 (Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi)
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)

PART NINE FOLLOWS.

Monday 16 September 2024

Albi Cathedral, France (Part Six).



English: The Marble Pulpit, Albi Cathedral, 
dated to 1776.
La chaire en marbre de 1776.
Italiano : Cattedrale di Albi - 
Il pulpito in marmo del 1776.
Photo: 4 August 2021.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)

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Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.


While much of the sculpture on the outer face of the Rood Screen was damaged, that on the interior of the Screen is almost completely intact, and features sculpture of The Twelve Apostles and two Angels around The Virgin Mary.

They are carved of stone and delicately coloured. Seventy-two statues of Angels decorate other parts of the Screen, surrounding the figure of Saint Cecilia, the Patron Saint of the Cathedral.[18]

The elaborate sculptural Screen, partly open-work and partly closed, surrounds the interior space of the Choir. This enclosure was built between 1474 and 1482 by Bishop Louis I d’Amboise. His Coat-of-Arms of two Angels carrying his emblem is displayed at the side entrances of the Screen.[10]


Chapel of Saint Claire, Albi Cathedral, 
below “The Last Judgement” mural.
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)


A study in 2012 discovered that the sculpture was originally painted in Blues and Reds, but was modified in the 19th-Century to brighter Greens and Orange-Reds, to harmonise with the more recent painted decoration.

Following that discovery, with the permission of the Commission of National Monuments, the sculpture was cleaned and restored as much as possible to the original gilding and colouring, and the 19th-Century background colours changed to the colour of stone, to recreate the original Mediæval harmony.[19]

One of the distinctive features of Albi Cathedral is the polychrome geometric painting of the Tribunes (Galleries) and Upper Walls, particularly in the Choir and the Chapels.



English: Chapel of Saint Cécile, in Albi Cathedral, 
with reliquary and a statue of the Saint. The statue dates 
from 1599,  and is meant to represent the body as it was 
found in the coffin at Rome. This statue is located at the Church of Saint Cecilia in Rome; Albi Cathedral, Dedicated 
to the Saint, has a faithful replica.
Français: Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi - Reliques et statue de Sainte-Cécile - La statue bien connue de Maderno , datant de 1599, est censée représenter le corps tel qu'il fut retrouvé dans le cercueil. Cette statue se trouve à l'église Sainte-Cécile à Rome ; la cathédrale d’Albi, dédiée à la Sainte, en possède une fidèle réplique.
Italiano : Si ritiene che la famosa statua di Maderno, risalente al 1599, rappresenti il ​​corpo così come è stato trovato nella bara. Questa statua si trova nella Chiesa di S. Cecilia a Roma; La Cattedrale di Albi, dedicata al Santo, ne conserva una fedele replica.
Photo: 4 August 2021.
Source: Own work.
(Wikimedia Commons)

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The geometric designs have a number of different motifs; some imitate the appearance of Marble; some are divided into Medallions or Squares, or give the appearance of three-dimensional Cubes; some have Coats-of-Arms, or painted Tree Branches, or false Balustrades. The Upper Levels offer painted Animals or Birds inhabiting the geometric designs, in an elaborate combination of humour and fantasy.[20]

The Baroque Pulpit, in the Nave, was commissioned by Cardinal Bernis, and was made between 1776 and 1779 by the Italian sculptors Mazetti and Maderni.[21]

The Cathedral has twelve Chapels, placed between the Buttresses along the sides of the Nave, and an additional twelve Chapels alongside the Choir, plus an additional five Chapels radiating from the Apse at The East End, and another, the Chapelle Sainte-Claire, at The West End. The Side Chapels in the Nave received overhead Galleries (Tribunes) in the 15th-Century.[8]


One of the Chapels in the Nave,
Albi Cathedral.
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)

PART SEVEN FOLLOWS.
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