Palais de l'Archevêché ou de la Berbie

English translation

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History

Grand salon (17th century, painted wood): ceiling with exposed beams and joists whose underside presents a painted decoration of geometric forms or scrollwork. The vertical faces of the beams and the upper walls corresponding to them are decorated with paintings of heraldic character. The scheme repeated throughout shows an escutcheon in a cartouche flanked by two figures reclining and leaning on either side. The beams carry, on each face, this motif three times. Lion faces intercalate between the groups, the whole enriched with garlands of fruit. ££Salon known as Berbie: 18th century decoration of carved woodwork, which were repainted. ££Chapel of Notre-Dame (1688, painted stucco, present on the lateral walls of the chapel and serving as surround to several painted canvases): decoration in the Italian taste commissioned by the archbishop Hyacinthe Serroni and completed under his successor, Legoux de la Berchère. The stucos bear the signature of Antonius Lombard Massiliensis. The arms of the two archbishops can be found in the decoration. The canvases which bear the arms of the second archbishop are the work of J.P Rousselet. ££Vaulted basement room (18th century, marble and carved wood): fireplace of red marble with veining, surmounted by a mirror-panel with two compartments in Louis XV style, in carved and gilded woodwork on stucco. Decoration of leafy scrollwork picked out with flowers and birds. Pediment centred on a round human face, surmounted by a shell. Of the original upper frame only the pediment and two pieces decorated with birds would remain.