AUTUMN IN FONTEVRAUD HIGHLIGHTS THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY, AT THE CROSSROADS OF HERITAGE, HISTORY AND ARTISTIC CREATION WITH LITURGICAL VESTMENTS. ON THE PROGRAM: EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, FAMILY WORKSHOPS…
After the success of Summer at Fontevraud, with over 100,000 visitors for the Monet exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art and for the illumination of Les Etoiles de Fontevraud in the abbey, place now in Autumn at Fontevraud.
After the evolution of the stained glass windows and the history of the Plantagenets in the previous years, this year gives way to liturgical vestments with the exhibition “Au fil du sacre- une mode en soie” . It is a considerable and fragile heritage that has marked the great artistic revolutions for more than a thousand years and which continues to be written today with masters of haute couture like Jean-Charles de Castelbajac