Cluny Museum The Musee de Cluny or Museum of the Middle Ages contains an art collection from Alexandre du Sommerard. The key word to describe this place is religion. Each religious stained glass windows tells a story. All of them were about a passage of the bible or about God. I assume those windows in a sequential order were kind of a movie for them. Also in the same floor are the ivory objects. The details in them were amazing, like tiny sculptures. They were not only using art to please God but to understand their world. Now, we do the exact same thing, if we already knew all the answer we would not appeal to God. Compared to middle ages we are not that religious as a society. The differences could be that they did not have the same technology. That element made even bigger our self-esteem as a society ad that makes us think we do not need god. Hence we based our art in other things. To pleasant God they created wooded sculptures that are over way detailed and seem to tell a story. However, the most amazing sculptures were the ivory ones. I saw several boxes made of ivory. The designs make difficult to imagine how artist did it. One of the most important collection in the museum of Clunny are the tapestries describing the five senses. The woman touching, hearing, tasting, seeing and smelling demonstrates how intrigued were people back then about how we relate ourselves with the world. The unicorn can also mean their interest for the unknown objects and the use of mythical stories to answer their questions. However, the last tapestry is a mystery. We can say it is a representation of a sixth sense that can be knowledge, critical thinking, presages or all of them. Today, we still remain thinking about a sixth sense.
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