Strasbourg museums

After the Cathedral visit the Strasbourg museum complex, contained in beautiful buildings dating from the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The most important is the “Musée de l'Oeuvre de Notre Dame”, opposite the Cathedral, which is divided into several sections; the ground floor has a room devoted to Roman sculptures taken from the Cathedral, paintings, furniture, stained glass. Among the glass windows, truly extraordinary are those by Peter Hemmel (1447-1501), “Adam in Paradise,” of Emperor Charlemagne (742-814) and of “King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba” (1270). Among the paintings they include the “Five Senses” by Sebastian Stosskopf (1597-1657), “Hercules and Antaeus,” by Hans Baldung (1484 c.-1545), the “Doubt of St. Joseph,” “The Visitation” and “Virgin and the Child” by French School of the fifteenth century and, finally, the “Dead Lovers” by Matthias Grunewald (1480-1528).

In the Rohan Palace is the Archaeological Museum, with finds from Alsace dating from Prehistory to 800 A.D. In particular, most important are some noteworthy finds discovered in the “Cave Oberlag”, with various stone tools dating to the Neolithic; a fibula representing a dog and hare ( of old Gaul-Roman age of the third and fourth centuries B.C.), various stele, a helmet and a decorated phalera ( a bronze sculpted disk used to adorn the harness of a horse) of the seventh century A.D.

Interesting also is the Museum of Decorative Arts, producing some very beautiful rooms: the “Hall of the synod,” “ The Hall of bishops,” “The King's Chamber” and the Library.

Also very important is the “Musée des Beaux Arts”, with paintings from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, of European area, including many prominent Italian painters, as the “Virgin and the Child with Two Angels” by Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), “San Sebastian” by Cima da Conegliano (1460 c.-1518 c.), the “Virgin and the Child” and “The myth of Prometheus” by Pietro di Cosimo (or Pietro di Lorenzo) [1461 c.-1521] , the “Adoration of the Shepherds” by Carlo Crivelli (1435 c.-1495 c.), the “Crucifixion” attributed to Giotto (1267-1337) and a “bust of an Angel” by Filippo Lippi called “Filippino” Lippi (1457-1504) .

In addition there are many collections of French and Flemish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. In particular, these include: “The Five Senses,” an allegorical painting by Jacques Linard (1600-1645), the “Vanité”, a still life by Simon Renard de Saint-André (1613-1677), the “Musiciens et soldats” by Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), a “Portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu”, by Philippe de Champagne (1602-1674); moreover, “The miraculous fishing” by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), a “Visitation” by Paul Rubens (1577-1640), a “Presumed Portrait of Luigia Cattaneo”, by Antoon Van Dyik (1599-1641).

In Place Hans Jean Arp, is the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, with works by Gustave Doré (1883-1932), “Le Christ quittant the prêtoire”, and “Strasbourg”; by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a “Still Life”, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the “Field of oats”, by George Braque (1882-1963), a “Still Life”, by Jean Arp (1886-1966), a “Great Head”, by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), the “Three Elements”, by Max Ernst (1891-1976), the “Deux jeunes filles nues”.

Note that entry to museums in Strasbourg is free the first Sunday of the month.

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Tourist classifications for Strasbourg museums: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 2*; Listed town of Art and History; 'Historical protected town centre' (secteur sauvegardé);

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