Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Luc
Ménerbes, Vaucluse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- En totalité, l'église Saint-Luc (cad. AT, n°290)
- Protection dates
- 2017/01/23:inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1520, 1530, 1585
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ménerbes
- Département
- Vaucluse
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.83539, 5.20272
- Mérimée reference
- PA84000074
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Les Estats de Savoye et de Piemont (southwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église de Ménerbes présente des qualités architecturales caractéristiques du gothique tardif méridional. Son décor peint sur l'arc triomphal représente le triomphe de l'Eucharistie, iconographie savante issue de la Contre-Réforme.
English translation
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History
The church of Ménerbes presents architectural qualities characteristic of southern late Gothic. Its painted decoration on the triumphal arch represents the triumph of the Eucharist, learned iconography derived from the Counter-Reformation.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien hôtel Astier de Montfaucon, puis ancien hospicehôtelunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de Tingryhôtelunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Blaisechapelleunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de la Pichonedolmen1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.