LEPAPE Séverine, BERNÉ Damien.
The Middle Ages in the spotlight. Tour and collections of the Cluny Museum.
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| Format | 21 x 26 |
| Détails | 288 p., numerous photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
The Cluny Museum has just completed the most significant renovation of its museum collection since the 1950s. Following its reopening to the public, its scientific team is revisiting the ideas and principles that governed this metamorphosis, serving a benchmark collection in the field of medieval art. In a unique approach, through this three-part book, it aims to reveal and explain to the reader how it renewed its perspective on the works, rethought their relationship to the museum's architectural setting, and constructed a new narrative.
The first part sets out the general orientations of the project, between accessibility, chronological logic of the visit route or dialogue of the different techniques and scales. The second describes the consequences of these choices on the treatment of the ancient and medieval buildings of the site, but also the principal aesthetic aspects of the new museography. The third presents, in the order of the visit, the twenty-one rooms of the museum from the angle of the principles which underlie their arrangement. Here, the reader is invited to become a visitor, and to go and experience how these ideas are embodied in each room. These twenty-one short chapters host some seventy focuses on the current events of the works during the years of work: acquisitions, spectacular restorations, new attributions constitute all ways of taking the pulse of a collection which remains, more than ever, alive and evolving.
It is the making of the museum that we touch here, in its concepts and in its materiality, before going to contemplate it in the new clarity of the thermal baths and the Gothic hotel of Cluny.
The first part sets out the general orientations of the project, between accessibility, chronological logic of the visit route or dialogue of the different techniques and scales. The second describes the consequences of these choices on the treatment of the ancient and medieval buildings of the site, but also the principal aesthetic aspects of the new museography. The third presents, in the order of the visit, the twenty-one rooms of the museum from the angle of the principles which underlie their arrangement. Here, the reader is invited to become a visitor, and to go and experience how these ideas are embodied in each room. These twenty-one short chapters host some seventy focuses on the current events of the works during the years of work: acquisitions, spectacular restorations, new attributions constitute all ways of taking the pulse of a collection which remains, more than ever, alive and evolving.
It is the making of the museum that we touch here, in its concepts and in its materiality, before going to contemplate it in the new clarity of the thermal baths and the Gothic hotel of Cluny.
The first part sets out the general orientations of the project, between accessibility, chronological logic of the visit route or dialogue of the different techniques and scales. The second describes the consequences of these choices on the treatment of the ancient and medieval buildings of the site, but also the principal aesthetic aspects of the new museography. The third presents, in the order of the visit, the twenty-one rooms of the museum from the angle of the principles which underlie their arrangement. Here, the reader is invited to become a visitor, and to go and experience how these ideas are embodied in each room. These twenty-one short chapters host some seventy focuses on the current events of the works during the years of work: acquisitions, spectacular restorations, new attributions constitute all ways of taking the pulse of a collection which remains, more than ever, alive and evolving.
It is the making of the museum that we touch here, in its concepts and in its materiality, before going to contemplate it in the new clarity of the thermal baths and the Gothic hotel of Cluny.