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Paradoxplace France Photo Galleries
Cluny Museum of the Middle Ages, Paris (Musée national du Moyen Age - Thermes de Cluny)
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This book is available in English at the museum bookshop |
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One of four Limoge caskets made to contain bits of Becket and now in Paris
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c1030 Capitals from St-Germain de Prés (Paris)
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1000s - Silver engraved Byzantine cross |
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Engraved Byzantine cross - 1000s |
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Annunciation
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Two Croziers from Limoges
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Annunciation
The Archangel Saint Michael and Dragon
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Two Misericords
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Two misericords from Beauvais, late 1400s. Sorry about the focus not but they are fun and it is relatively unusual to come across misericords in France.
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1000s Zodiac nave capitals from the now disappeared Parisian Abbey Church of Ste-Geneviève
Link to lots of other pages of Zodiac Signs and Labours of the Month
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Centre - Aquarius (the water carrier) and maybe Scorpio (the scorpion), and on the left a sort of goanna eats something - not sure how that fits in! |
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Pisces |
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Aries (the ram) and Taurus (the bull) |
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Capricorn (the sea goat), replete with smig (Gaelic for goatee) |
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The Gemini twins doing their "wotcha looking at me like that for?" thing with a bit of blue woad. |
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Sagittarius the archer centaur |
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