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An architecture “écorché” to discover art history and Normandy’s history.
Located along the Seine, between Rouen and Le Havre, the abbey of Jumièges embodies the influence of one of the oldest and most prestigious monasteries in the West. A subject of research for many historians, the ruins allow us to retrace the major events in the history of both Normandy and the country since the 7th century.
Destroyed during the Revolution, the abbey’s ruins earned it the nickname of “the most beautiful ruin in France” in the 19th century. A new look on medieval sacred architecture emerged then with the rise of a new romantic aesthetic. Hugo, Chateaubriand, Turner contributed to turn the abbey of Jumièges into a model of this new outlook on landscape. Art deconsecrated the church, while the notion of “heritage” arose, now a central subject in visual art avant-gardes. To keep a part of this history of art and landscape, the abbey now hosts contemporary art exhibitions.
