Barentin - Sainte Barbe

STATUES - HITHER & DITHER

Barentin
Seine-Maritime
Haute-Normandie

Rue Antoine Bourdelle

Sainte Barbe

Saint Barbara

Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr (Wikipedia).

Antoine Bourdelle
1916/copy

Description

Stone statue of Saint Barbara with a palm branch and a mine lamp. The 1916 terracotta original is in the Musée Ingres in Montauban.

Inscription(s)

Signed: ...elle Antoine / Bourdelle / ...

Information Sign

SAINTE
BARBE

par antoine bourdelle

Barentin - Musée dans la Rue

Barentin "City of Arts" has 320 sculptures scattered throughout the city in its "street museum": 112 statues and busts of famous sculptors in the public space, and a permanent exhibition in the Camille Claudel Room with 80 sculptures.

Initiator of the "street museum" is the lawyer and politician André Marie (Honfleur 1897 - Rouen 1974, Wikipedia), who was mayor of Barentin from 1945 to 1974 and minister of national education. The town continues his initiative under the leadership of Michel Bentot, Mayor since 1990, with the purchase, maintenance and restoration of the sculptures, paintings and monuments.

Click here for a interactive map with the locations of the busts.

See also:
Barentin Cité des Arts, Patrimoine.

Sculptor

Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (Bordelles) (Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, 1861 – Le Vésinet, Yvelines, 1929), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Clickable keywords:

Location N 49°32'33" E 0°57'3"

Item Code: frhn071; Photograph: 3 June 2012
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