Chapelle de Reugny

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Chapelle de Reugny
The portal at The Cloisters Museum in New York

The Chapelle de Reugny (also: Notre-Dame de Reugny ) is an early Gothic priory church near Laféline in the Allier department in Auvergne . The building should not be confused with the Prieuré Notre-Dame de Reugny, 20 kilometers northwest .

history

Notre Dame was built in the late 12th century as the house of worship for a small Augustinian priory. The most important component was a richly decorated west portal, which came into the possession of the art collector George Blumenthal after 1920, who had it installed in his Paris apartment.

In 1934 Blumenthal donated the portal to The Cloisters Museum in New York City , where it now serves as the entrance to the cloister of the monastery of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, which has also been transferred there. Notre-Dame itself is classified as a French monument historique .

literature

  • Peter Barnet / Nancy Wu: The Cloisters. Medieval Art and Architecture . New York n.d., pp. 66f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chapelle de Reugny in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Chapelle de Reugny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 19 ′ 2.8 "  N , 3 ° 10 ′ 32.4"  E