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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 828126" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p><strong>La Charité: the grandest priory that ever was (2022)</strong></p><p></p><p>As you know, priories (i.e., subsidiaries of abbeys) usually are humble, smallish-sized affairs. Around 1200, at the end of the Romanesque age, the French abbey of Cluny numbered more than 1,000 of them, but the Cluniac priory in La Charité-sur-Loire (central France) is unique in that it features a more enormous and impressive church than most full-fledged abbeys.</p><p></p><p>The priory was founded in 1052 by a monk from Cluny named Gérard, on land gifted by the count of Nevers. In 1135, the finished Romanesque church was nothing but the second largest church in Christendom, after Cluny’s <em>major ecclesia</em> itself. Thus, it was dubbed “Cluny’s elder daughter”.</p><p></p><p>Further to damages and a great fire sustained in 1559 during the Wars of Religion, the church was never fully rebuilt, but substantially remodeled in the 17th century. Not much of what’s left is Romanesque, but what is is grandiose and magnificent, as we can see here.</p><p></p><p>Listed as a Historic Landmark on the very first list of 1840, it is also a UNESCO World Heritage site, as it is located on the <em>Via Lemovicensis,</em> the path to Compostela originating in Vézelay and going through the large city of Limoges, hence its name.</p><p></p><p>It is currently undergoing restoration works (roof insulation) funded in part by the Fondation du Patrimoine, one of the non-profit heritage foundations I work for as a <em>pro bono</em> photographer. The photo below was shot as part of a campaign meant to illustrate such works. The photo shows the choir and the apse: “broken” or “pointy” arches typical of Cluniac architecture, three stories, a false triforium and plenty of light coming down from the windows at the clerestory level.</p><p></p><p>Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light. Nik Software’s ColorEfex Pro 4 used during the post-processing.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414358[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 828126, member: 53455"] [B]La Charité: the grandest priory that ever was (2022)[/B] As you know, priories (i.e., subsidiaries of abbeys) usually are humble, smallish-sized affairs. Around 1200, at the end of the Romanesque age, the French abbey of Cluny numbered more than 1,000 of them, but the Cluniac priory in La Charité-sur-Loire (central France) is unique in that it features a more enormous and impressive church than most full-fledged abbeys. The priory was founded in 1052 by a monk from Cluny named Gérard, on land gifted by the count of Nevers. In 1135, the finished Romanesque church was nothing but the second largest church in Christendom, after Cluny’s [I]major ecclesia[/I] itself. Thus, it was dubbed “Cluny’s elder daughter”. Further to damages and a great fire sustained in 1559 during the Wars of Religion, the church was never fully rebuilt, but substantially remodeled in the 17th century. Not much of what’s left is Romanesque, but what is is grandiose and magnificent, as we can see here. Listed as a Historic Landmark on the very first list of 1840, it is also a UNESCO World Heritage site, as it is located on the [I]Via Lemovicensis,[/I] the path to Compostela originating in Vézelay and going through the large city of Limoges, hence its name. It is currently undergoing restoration works (roof insulation) funded in part by the Fondation du Patrimoine, one of the non-profit heritage foundations I work for as a [I]pro bono[/I] photographer. The photo below was shot as part of a campaign meant to illustrate such works. The photo shows the choir and the apse: “broken” or “pointy” arches typical of Cluniac architecture, three stories, a false triforium and plenty of light coming down from the windows at the clerestory level. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light. Nik Software’s ColorEfex Pro 4 used during the post-processing. [ATTACH type="full"]414358[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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