Formes du salut

Forms of Salvation 'invites you to discover seven sculptures and a painted panel from the Val Duchesse abbey. These works are part of the collection of Abbé Mignot, they were bequeathed to the Royal Donation and deposited in the L Museum. Through this book, the Museum wishes to highlight the conservation / restoration work carried out at the Royal Institute for Artistic Heritage (IRPA) thanks to the Baillet Latour Fund. Beyond its practical utility which guarantees the salvation, the sustainability and the transmission of this heritage to future generations, this intervention made it possible to inform the uses and the history of the sculptures, often altered according to the circumstances of their exhibition. It is therefore also the participation of these works in religious life and more precisely their role in the quest for salvation by the faithful Christians that is at the heart of the work. Emmanuelle Mercier (IRPA), Erika Rabelo (IRPA) and Matthieu Somon (UCLouvain) offer here a kind of pragmatics of religious art and document the inscription of works in the religious life of the medieval period: interactions were there a lot. more alive than their current presentation can l