Having reached my 200th blogpost earlier this week, I looked back to see which of the last hundred posts recorded the most "hits" and found that it was the description of the Foucault pendulum suspended from the apex of the dome of the Pantheon. So I decided that a second visit to this magnificent church, commissioned by King Louis XV and built between 1764 and 1790, was warranted.
Louis XV built this church in honour of Sainte Genevieve as a token of his gratitude for his recovery from serious illness. As it was completed during the Revolution, it was turned into a monument to house the tombs of the heroic revolutionaries. When Napoleon came to power, he returned the building to the Church, but in 1885 it was finally made into a civic building.
The light reflected from the grey stone highlights the colours of the frescoes while emphasizing the shadows in the statues and columns in a very pleasing way.
OJ
No comments:
Post a Comment