Cerisy La Foret

At Cerisy la Foret, near St Lo in the department of the Manche, is an impressive abbey church dating from the 11th century. The abbey had been founded in the 6th century by St Vigor, but devastated by the Vikings in the 9th century.

cerisy.jpg

Ironically, it was a descendant of the Viking leader who undertook the restauration of the ruins two centuries later. Square and solid, with an architecture foreshadowing the gothic style, it somehow manages to be ethereal at the same time, as though it is floating above the landscape rather than forming part of it.




Why not visit our Art Wiki? You can read or write about art and artists. And even add a page about yourself…

".. Renoir, Picasso, Cubism, Renaissance art, Georges Seurat, Michael Asher, da Vinci, lautrec, leger, Joan Miro, Impressionism, Edvard Munch, Hans Holbein, Matisse, realism, rococo, baroque, Bosch art, Mark Rothko, orkin, poynter, pollock, Geoff Bunn art, Turner, Sol LeWitt, hirst, emin, Max Ernst, still-life, Richard Serra, landscapes, Primitivism, John Sargent, Madge Gill, pre-raphaelites, Conceptualism, Claude Monet, art brut, art povera, Mel Bochner, bridget riley, LS Lowry, Expressionism, modigliani, Marcel Duchamp, Victor Burgin, dada, surrealism and much more besides…"

The Art Wiki

Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License