Sunday, August 31, 2014

Heads That Rolled


At the Cluny Musee they raced through before it closed, admiring all the heads of the Israelite kings which had adorned the facade of Notre Dame, but were knocked down by the revolutionaries who thought these were heads of  French Kings. They now share the room with their torsos in the Medieval Museum which is filled with exquisite Twelfth Century art.

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