gothic decoration on Hôtel de Cluny, Paris
The Musée de Cluny is a museum in Paris housing a collection of art from the Middle Ages: the Musée National du Moyen Âge.
The museum stands on the site of a Roman baths complex (called the Thermes de Cluny).
The carving of grotesques seen here - an example of 'flamboyant gothic' - is on the parapet running just under the roof line in the corner of the courtyard of the building, which was built in the 15th-16th century as the Hôtel de Cluny for abbot Jacques d'Amboise of the Cluniac monastic order. It replaced the original Hôtel de Cluny which was built in the 14th century.
gothic decoration on Hôtel de Cluny, Paris
The Musée de Cluny is a museum in Paris housing a collection of art from the Middle Ages: the Musée National du Moyen Âge.
The museum stands on the site of a Roman baths complex (called the Thermes de Cluny).
The carving of grotesques seen here - an example of 'flamboyant gothic' - is on the parapet running just under the roof line in the corner of the courtyard of the building, which was built in the 15th-16th century as the Hôtel de Cluny for abbot Jacques d'Amboise of the Cluniac monastic order. It replaced the original Hôtel de Cluny which was built in the 14th century.