Chalice from the Musee de la Visitation
The Musee de la Visitation is a unique museum in Moulins, France, exhibiting the artisitic embroideries and precious vessels of Visitation Monasteries throughout the world.
This coming May 2012 an exhibit entitled Sacred Silks will be featured, and a beautifully photographed catalog will be released.
Sacred Silks
Precious Fabrics in the Visitation
Museum of the Visitation / Somogy Editions d’Art
Released: May 2012
The Museum of the Visitation reveals its outstanding collection of silk. This set is unique in France, and shows the genius and creativity of the weavers in making silk mixed with gold and silver, from the late sixteenth century to today.
These precious fabrics were first made for clothes, furnishings and ceremonial pomp of the courts of Europe. The Visitation offered them a second life by making the clothes sacred. They have preserved the light and the test of time.
Sacrees Soireries
Sacred Silks invites you into the finest wardrobes of the XVII and XVIII century, preserved in the sacristy of the Visitation Monastery where no one was able to penetrate for centuries with the exception of the religious responsible for this precious treasure.
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