Tympanum, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France

Relief of a 3 women led by a servant boy, on a tympanum over a door to the staircase leading to the chapel, in the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Jacques Coeur personally instructed that the function of the room should be described in the tympanum of its door. Fulcanelli stated that Jacques Coeur was an alchemist and it is believed that some of these symbols are hermetic, for example stressing the fact that women were excluded from most work but not philosophical thought. 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

13437129

Media ID

45366623

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7087px x 4724px (14.0MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen