LINK: Via a friend, I came across a good post at Patum Peperium on Joan of Arc*, of interest to me mostly because it covers some of the history of Dijon. I have no specific memory of the Eglise St. Michel, which is surprising, since I spent four days hoofing it around the city center.
Then again, I was in Dijon to soak up the work of Claus Sluter, which must be seen to be believed.** The Well of Moses may look like just another piece of vaguely Baroque sculpture, but it proceeds the Baroque by 200 years or so. European painting had already begun to make the leap into truly representational art (I would be a poor Dantean if I didn't recognize the advances of Cimabue and Giotto), of course, but this is something else entirely--not a representation of the thing, but an attempt at the thing itself.
*No saints, please, we're Protestant
**sadly, there's no good detail I can find of the mourners at the bottom of Philip the Bold's tomb--the time involved to make all of those must have been incredible
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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