Musée Rolin

Musée Rolin Review

The Musée Rolin, across from the cathedral, was built by Chancellor Nicolas Rolin, an important Burgundian administrator and famous art patron (he's immortalized in one of the Louvre's greatest paintings, Jan van Eyck's Madonna and the Chancellor Rolin). The museum is noteworthy for its early Flemish paintings and sculpture, including the magisterial Nativity painted by the Maître de Moulins in the 15th century. But the collection's star is a Gislebertus masterpiece, the Temptation of Eve, which originally topped one of the side doors of the cathedral. Try to imagine the missing elements of the scene: Adam on the left and the devil on the right.