Rouen Cathedral

Rouen Cathedral

“Everything changes, even stone,” Claude Monet said of the cast of light upon medieval stone. Between 1892 and 1894, Monet painted the facade of Rouen cathedral more than thirty times. Like his haystacks and poplars, this was one of his major series of...
Sculpture of Arhart, Musée Guimet

Sculpture of Arhart, Musée Guimet

This tri-color glazed sculpture of an arhat (Luohan) is displayed in the gallery with other medieval Buddhist sculptures at the Musée Guimet in Paris. In 1912, it was discovered in a cave west of Yi County as a part of a set of arhat sculptures. Today, this set is...