Today we went to the Museum of the Middle Ages, aka the Musée de Cluny. The museum is best known for housing the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, which are pretty cool, but which I didn’t photograph on my usual grounds that finding photos online in the future will be easy.

But I did photograph several pieces of religious art.

First, the annunciation. This is a gentle annunciation. Gabriel, looking rather human, is only just starting to speak, yet Mary already is open to God’s will.

Annunciation in two statues

Now several scenes from the lives of the saints. First, St. Martin splitting his cloak.

Saint Martin stained glass

And this second scene, not strictly speaking from the life of St. Stephen, shows what happened when his body was transported in error. A tempest came up and the ship was attacked by demons. St. Stephen appeared and saved the ship. This scene is from a large series of tapestries detailing the events of Stephen’s life and death.

Saint Stephen and the tempest tapestry

And finally the resurrection of the dead.  Resurrection stained glass