Sculptural detail, monumental fireplace, Palais

Sculptural detail of a musician playing a lute, from the monumental fireplace called Les Loisirs de la Jeunesse or The Noble Pursuit, with low arched lintel and mantel with false ogee bays with false mullion windows with a couple of burghers or aristocrats and a frieze above, with pinacles and finials of the ogees, in the West Gallery of the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. The frieze depicts a village festivity, a peasant tournament using donkeys, staves and wicker shields. One of the couples is thought to represent Jacques Coeur and Agnes Sorel, picking fruit from a basket while watching the tournament. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Picture No

13437154

Media ID

45367199

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7087px x 4724px (6.3MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen