Then just across the road to the Schnutgen Museum. I had described this collection to Megan as one of religious statuary so I was surprised to find Schnutgen described simply as a collection of mediaeval art for it was virtually all religious, through stained glass and religious robes and reliquaries and implements for masses and memories and ivory and bronze and mostly statues of saints and Mary and Jesus. None-the-less, the collection is impressive and worthy although I had seen it before and the gruesome aspects of mediaeval religiosity, in the days of short and painful lives, did grate. I was amused by the stutue of Jesus on a horse on wheels for a procession; slightly horrified and a little confused by a locked cell with skull from centuries later; taken aback by the modelled head of St John the Baptist on a plate and amused by the reappearance of St Denis (?) holding his skull and mitre. Otherwise just enjoying a connection with another era, for these are still people and products of their society as we all are; their society is just different.
The Schnutgen Museum of mediaeval history in in Cologne.
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