Église des Carmes (Trie-sur-Baïse)

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The Église des Carmes
Elements of the cloister at The Cloisters Museum in New York

The Eglise des Carmes is a former monastery church of the Carmelites in Trie-sur-Baise in the Hautes-Pyrenees in France . The church has been classified as a monument historique since 1977 . and is used for cultural purposes.

history

The Carmelite Monastery of Trie-sur-Baise was founded between 1357 and 1363 by Charles II of Navarre . In the 15th century, the Bastide Trie became very wealthy, which was reflected in donations to the monastery, which was able to build a new church in the "southern Gothic " style ( gothique méridional ) and an important cloister with a hundred marble capitals around 1450 . The church was built with a single nave with a five-sided choir closure and originally had side chapels between the outer buttresses, only one of which has survived.

During the Wars of Religion, the monastery was plundered and devastated by Huguenot troops under Gabriel de Montgomery in 1569 . Only the monastery church remained intact. In 1582 the Carmelites sold 84 capitals of the cloister to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan in order to raise funds for the reconstruction costs. After the abbey of Saint-Sever was dissolved, numerous elements of the cloister ended up in private collections. Eighteen capitals are now in the reconstructed Trie Cloister in The Cloisters Museum in New York. Other capitals were built in a roof garden of today's Explorer's Club on 70th Street in Manhattan , others are in the Jardin Massey park in Tarbes in another reconstructed cloister, the cloister of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan .

literature

  • Peter Barnet / Nancy Wu: The Cloisters. Medieval Art and Architecture. New York 2012, pp. 157f.
  • Celine Brugeat: Saints and Models: The St. Cosmas and St. Damian Capital: A Pyrenean Sculpture at the Walters Art Museum. In: The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 72 (2014), p. 43f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Église des Carmes in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ desceneenscene.fr

Web links

Commons : Église des Carmes de Trie-sur-Baïse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 43 ° 19 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 0 ° 22 ′ 20.4 ″  E