Saint-Trophime Cloister – Arles France – ECTV
Hey everybody, this is Eric Clark’s Travel Videos and I’m in Arless France and I’m at the Cloister. Let’s go inside and take a look. So this is the Closter here. So, and I don’t know much about it or if there’s tickets needed or required or um anything else, but I uh I think you might need a ticket. Yeah, I think you do. Okay, I’ll be back. Okay, so I got my ticket and This is the cloister. Let me see here. I’m going to put this down a little bit. Uhhuh. Uh, American. No, no problem. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Wow. This is the cloister. That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it? Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So, let me show you something real quick on my phone. If you take it out and you zoom all the way out like this, you can get both sides. And there’s nobody here. So, you can see what you get. Is that amazing? And there’s the picture. And this one will only do See, it doesn’t do end to end. It’ll do a lot of it, but not all of it. The ceilings are great. Wow. The columns are great, too. Each one of them’s ornate. Wow. Wow. Look at the church up there, too. That’s pretty phenomenal, huh? Wow. Check that out. Oh, and look at this, too. Wow. The last supper, maybe. I don’t know. Wow. Yeah. Every figure is different. That one’s that. This one’s that. This guy’s This looks like there’s a fight right there. And then these are all different, too. Wow. And every one of these columns is different. You see how those two are different? And these two are different than those other two, and these two are different than those other four. Wow, that’s a lot of work. And these columns would have supported like a roof or some kind of uh covering or something. Wow. What’s in here? Wow. What’s in here? What’s in here? Wow. And you can get on the roof. Look at this little door. Wow. Amazing. Oh, and there’s benches all the way around and you can look right down into the cluster. Get out of here. That’s pretty amazing, huh? I love the church, too, and the tower. Very cool. Neat, neat, neat. I’ll let them finish coming up the stairs. Worth the climb. It is. All right, everybody. I think that’s it. Unless I’m missing something downstairs, but I think I saw it all. Let me look one more time. I can run downstairs pretty quick. And you can’t beat the the Cester. It really is amazing. Very cool. Okay, everybody. Arless France. The cloister. Now that’s interesting. Um, unless I noticed it wrong. So, look at these ceilings. Da right now. I’m just curious just in case I was crazy and I wasn’t. These are different ceilings. Did they have to redo them? These are the originals and those had to be redone. Yeah, cuz that’s different. Okay, cool. Bye everybody.
The Saint-Trophime cloister of the old cathedral of Arles dates from the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.
The location of this cloister is unusual because it is not attached to either the nave or the transept. It communicates with the choir by means of a staircase of twenty-five steps. This cloister has an approximately rectangular shape, 28 m long and 25 m wide. Comparable dimensions are found in the Provence region only in the cloisters of Thoronet, Sénanque or Montmajour.
The construction of the cloister began shortly after 1150 with the construction of the north gallery, which was shortly followed by that of the eastern gallery. It was not until the end of the fourteenth century that the cloister was completed with the construction of the west gallery and then the south gallery, which was completed under the episcopate of Jean de Rochechouart (1390-1398). The result of these different periods of construction is two different styles for the galleries: Romanesque for the north and east galleries, and Gothic for the west and south galleries.
The cloister reflects a search for plastic perfection with a remarkable balance of volumes and a high quality of sculpted decoration.
It has been classified as a historical monument since 1846[1]. It has also been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a Roman and Romanesque monument in Arles since 1981.
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