The Cathedral As A Museum of Stained Glass Art
by hquittner
Stained glass as an art form is older than painting on canvas. The earliest preserved specimen in situ is in Augsburg Cathedral (12C). The purposeful coloring of wrought glass is somewhat earlier. Metz cathedral has provided a fine site for expression of the form. Moreover in the late 15C the craft and art flourished and fine artists worked here, Most recently (1960) artists with an interest in this form have again been commissioned to create. Marc Chagall was already in his 70's when invited and had created other windows that had both been acclaimed and derided in part because they were made by craftsmen from sketches and among other things the lead supports of the glass distorted his concepts. Since he was not an adept at glasswork the project here became a collaborative project using all the scientific color developments that had occurred in the 19C (by Lafarge and Tiffany in the US and the English Gothic Revivalists) as well as 20C advances. Thus Chagall's dream-like evocations of the graphic imagery of the Old Testament are carefully integrated coloristicly with the demands of the supports and some of the shadings are like his paintings writ large.
Marshal Ney
by Aurorae
This is a monument to Marshal Ney, Napoleon's officer who was in charge at the battle of Waterloo.
The monument is in the park square of Epslanade, near the Arsenal.
Here you can read some of his thoughts:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/waterloo_ney.htm
If you need to go...
by Aurorae
Another useful WC tip, although I haven't tested it personally. On the streets you will find lots of public toilettes, right in the middle of the street! You have to insert a coin (I think it's 0,30 EUR) and voila! The Sesame gates open. They all seemed very small and tight, and God knows what you can expect inside, but in case you didn't manage somehow, this is an ultimate solution. Better than nothing...
Stain glass window art
by Kuznetsov_Sergey
Legends lie dormant under the heavy weight of the ancestral stones of the cathedral ; their testimonies decorate the mysterious vaults. Gargoyles, bestiary, fabulous monsters, signs and mysterious allegories remind us of old times where fantastic beliefs were part of life.
You will discover the legend of the famous dragon, the "Graoully", which terrorized the city, or the story of Pierre Perrat - architect of the cathedral who first made a pact with the devil, to better fool him afterwards.
Like a diva getting ready every evening for her most beautiful show, Metz puts on its light's costume and offers to the walker a brilliant entertainment.
My trip consisted of just...
by bmiller39
My trip consisted of just visiting the historical cemetarys, museums, and viewing the battlefields...One monument is an entire French Battalion ( about 900 soldiers) who were killed in one battle in one of the defensive trenches..the site is memorialized and the rifles of the fallen soldiers are still visibly sticking out of the ground after all of these years..
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Porte des Allemands, Metz, France 2009
The Moselle River winds through the city
The city walls
These walls once protected Metz
