Sabbatical Art Pilgrimage: Basilique Notre Dame d’Espérance, Charleville-Méziéres

Basilique Notre Dame d’Espérance, Charleville-Méziéres (Réne Durrbach)

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Mazzy Star - Fade Into You.

Sabbatical art pilgrimage: Europe - Highlights

Before beginning to post about the sites I visited as part of European stage of my sabbatical art pilgrimage, here are some images from the sites which were highlights for me.

Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte-Face

Basilique Notre-Dame d'Espérance

Notre Dame du Raincy

Musée départemental Maurice Denis

Metz Cathedral

Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut

Monastery Saint-Claire

Sacré Cœur d'Audincourt

Saint-Pierre de Fribourg

Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu

Saint Nicolas Semsales

Saint-Paul Grange-Canal

Notre Dame du Bon-Secours

Basilica Saint François de Sales

Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce du Plateau d'Assy

Notre-Dame des Alpes

Convent of La Tourette

Sint Martinuskerk

Eglise de Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Chapel of Light, Eglise de Saint-Jean-Baptiste

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Delaney and Bonnie - When The Battle Is Over.

Sabbatical art pilgrimage: Basilica Notre-Dame d'Espérance Charleville-Mezieres

My second visit today was to Charleville-Mezieres to see the Basilica of Notre Dame d'Esperance. Building on the basilica started in 1499 - and finished more than 125 years later, much of the building in the gothic style. Despite damage with the allied bombardments at the end of the first World War, the church remains essentially intact (or reconstructed as the original), except for the stained glass windows that had been destroyed and were replaced between 1956 and 1979 - these windows are by René Durrbach, a pupil of Albert Gleizes and a friend of Picasso. There are more than 68 windows which use a cycle of symbolic colours, figures, numbers and signs to take the viewer on a journey of salvation from creation to the celestial Jerusalem. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrianchatfield/sets/72157627464418175/.