Outreach & Education - Cloister of St. Trophime in Arles, France

St. Trophime in Arles, France, is an important pilgrimage site and the starting point of the Via Tolosana to Santiago de Compostela. The church of St. Trophime was built between the eleventh and twelfth centuries—a time of great prosperity in Arles—while the construction of the adjoining monastic cloister began in the twelfth century. Its north and east galleries contain extraordinary Romanesque bas-relief sculptures and carved column capitals that depict stories from the Bible. The later, fourteenth-century south and west galleries of the cloister contain sculpture with scriptural depictions in the Gothic style. In 2008, WMF became involved in the conservation of the cloister at St. Trophime. In collaboration with CyArk, WMF created laser scans of the cloister that allowed us to propose a detailed conservation program through web-based 3-D models in combination with drawings, high-resolution photography, and narrative descriptions of treatments to be employed. This video explains the history of the cloister at St. Trophime through the use of some of those materials. Learn more: https://www.wmf.org/project/cloister-...