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Filed under Art, Heritage, Out & About
Art at the Wallace Collection
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 8th 2014
Filed under Art, Heritage, Out & About
Duke of Wellington Statue
Before the Wellington Arch was moved to it’s present location it was topped by a controversial statue of The Duke of Wellington. When the arch was dismantled and relocated the statue was taken down and replaced by the Quadriga that now tops the arch. This left the question of what to do with [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2014
Filed under Art, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
Rosengart Collection
The Rosengart Collection (property of a foundation established by Angela Rosengart in 1992) has been accessible to the public in its entirety – f0r the first time ever – since March 2002. The collection, which comprises some 220 works and focuses primarily on French painting from 1870 to the 20th century, is presented over an [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 19th 2013
Filed under Art, Lucerne 2013
Bourbaki Panorama Lucerne
The Bourbaki Panorama is the best example I have seen of this type of artwork.
The 112 x 10 m large-scale panorama depicts the French Army of the East under General Bourbaki crossing the border into Switzerland and being disarmed in February 1871. The picture is complimented by 21 figures that tell the soldiers’ story. Sound [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 18th 2013
Filed under Art, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
The Old Town Walls – The Clock Tower
The oldest city clock built by Hans Luter in 1535 is on the Zyt tower. This clock is privileged to chime every hour one minute before all the other city clocks. Unique collection of old tower clocks (1526 t0 1820) is in Lucerne’s clock tower. Experience the huge clock face and rhythmic movements of the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2013
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Lucerne 2013
Spreuer Bridge – The Paintings
Paintings under the roof of Spreuer Bridge
Under the roof of Spreuer Bridge, 67 paintings dating from 1626 to 1635 represent a “Dance of Death”. Death, represented as a skeleton or as the “Great Reaper” urges everybody to dance with him, i.e. to die. Death makes no difference between old and young, churchmen and laymen, rich [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Dec 12th 2013
