Church
Église des Dominicains
Former convent church guarding a fifteenth-century altarpiece once stolen and later recovered.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Eglise des Dominicains in Colmar centers on one painting, Martin Schongauer's Madonna of the Rose Bower, and the money that has always trailed it: a goldsmith father, a brisk trade in fifteenth-century prints, and a theft from the neighboring church one January night in nineteen seventy-two. It follows the panel's disappearance and its recovery in a garage outside Lyon more than a year later. Look for the roses climbing behind the Madonna's head while you listen.
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