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17-MAY-2010 Marie-Jose WOLFF

l'église St Ours de Loches.

St-Ourss church is remarkable because it possesses the most beautiful and best-preserved polychrome roman gate in Touraine : it dates from the 12th century and represents a ě bestiaireî, that is to say animals - real or fantastical - symbolizing Good and Evil. The last arch represents seven female characters who symbolize the 7 ěliberalî arts, that is to say, the trivium and the quadrivium, the bases of religious teaching in the Middle-Ages ( grammar, rhetorics, dialectics / geometry, arithmetics, astronomy and music ).


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Pawel Kazmierczyk27-Sep-2017 19:42
nice composition - great work!
Yiannis Pavlis01-Jul-2010 13:06
Beautiful place in a wonderful light. V
Milan Vogrin13-Jun-2010 19:02
Very nice compo!V!
Blandine Mangin13-Jun-2010 16:17
une superbe composition ! v
Zoltán Balogh13-Jun-2010 15:46
Fabulous image, I love it very much! V
Guest 13-Jun-2010 09:48
Fantastic capture, Marie-Jose.
Guest 13-Jun-2010 09:46
Very beautiful! so masterfully composed, V
zyziza13-Jun-2010 08:16
Old church and interesting info.
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