manuel cohen

Sculptural detail, Hotel Lallemant, Bourges, France

Winged stag with a crown, thought to be a homage to King Charles VIII, showing the Lallemant brothers' closeness to the King, one of many fantastic creatures decorating the building, flanking a window in the Upper Courtyard of the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. Similarly, Jacques Coeur also paid homage to Charles VII on the tympanum to the Salle des Festins in his Palais Jacques Coeur. The sculptural decoration on the building, made by both French and Italian sculptors, has been interpreted by Fulcanelli and others as having an alchemical symbolism. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Winged stag with a crown, thought to be a homage to King Charles VIII, showing the Lallemant brothers' closeness to the King, one of many fantastic creatures decorating the building, flanking a window in the Upper Courtyard of the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. Similarly, Jacques Coeur also paid homage to Charles VII on the tympanum to the Salle des Festins in his Palais Jacques Coeur. The sculptural decoration on the building, made by both French and Italian sculptors, has been interpreted by Fulcanelli and others as having an alchemical symbolism. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen