BERNARD BERTHOD
PhD, conserv?tion specialist at the Museum of Religious Art of Fourvire (Lyon)
GAL FAVIER
PhD stud?nt at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
LE CALICE DE SAINT RMI: inspiration et rinterprtation aux XIX et XX sicles / ????? ?????? ??????: ??????????? ? ???????????????? ? XIX ? XX ????
SAINT RMI'S CHALICE: inspiration and a new interpretation during the 19th and 20th centuries
Journal 9/2013 (Museum of Applied Art), pages 57-69
UDC:
904:27-524(44)"13/18"
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Abstract (original language):
Le calice de saint Rmi, conserv au trsor de la cathdrale de Reims et utilis pour le sacre des rois de France depuis le XIVme sicle jusqu'au sacre de Charles X, en 1827, a beaucoup marqu l'imaginaire franais voire europen. Le mouvement nogothique a renouvel le regard des artistes sur les oeuvres mdivales et de nombreux architectes et dessinateurs travaillant pour des orfvres se sont inspirs d'objets liturgiques haute porte symbolique comme le calice de saint Rmi. L'tude prsente l'interprtation de cette oeuvre par des architectes franais, en particulier Viollet-le-Duc, et les ralisations par des orfvres actifs aux XIXme et XXme sicles dans un contexte de lutte de l'Eglise catholique contre l'Etat anticlrical.
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Key words: (original language)
Orfvrerie, Nogothique, Catholicisme, Armand-Calliat, PoussilgueRusand, Saint Remi, Viollet-le-Duc / ??????????, ?????????, ?????????????, ?????-?????? (Armand-Calliat), ???????????? (Poussilgue-Russand), ????? ????, ?????-??-??? (Violet-le-Duc)
Summary:
Saint Rmi's chalice, held by the treasury of the cathedral of Reims and used in the coronation of kings of France between the 14th century and Charles X's coronation, in 1827, made a deep impression on French and European people. Due to the fact that it was confused with the Vase of Soissons, it became the mythical object brought into relation with the founding of the Kingdom of the Franks, the first Christian kingdom of the West. This vase was actually a product of a workshop in northern France manufactured during the first half of the 13th century. The Gothic revival turned the eyes of artists towards medieval works and many architects and designers working for silversmiths were inspired by symbolically loaded liturgical objects, such as the chalice of Saint-Rmi, which was one of the most copied models. Since 1848, the publisher Adolphe Napolon Didron and the architect Viollet-le-Duc presented it as an example of the peak achievements of medieval art in the 13th century. The study presents the reinterpretation of this work by two French silversmiths who were very famous in the 19th and the early 20th centuries: the Parisian Poussilgue-Rusand and Armand-Calliat of Lyon. The revival of the art inspired by the Middle Ages was a segment of the struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and the state anticlericalism.
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