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The museum des Tissus in the area of Pasqu'ile is the city's best museum that has a bright collection of fabrics throughout the ages, particularly Greek oriented third century tapestries. Woven silk and Egyptian painted linens. The piece de resistence is the second century woven wool "aux poisson" that is unmatchable. There are silks from all over the world from the time of the Arabian night sand carpets from the internationally renowned weavers if Iran, China and Turkey. There are also some local items but sadly not enough historic items. The best is the last century items that include Delunay's Tissus Simultanès or Dufy's Les Coquillages. The Musuem of Decorative art is next door and houses seventeenth century tapestries and furniture. Opposite the Hotel de Ville is the large bulk of the Musée des Beaux-Arts located in a old Benedictine abbey and boasts collections only second in France to the offerings of the Louvre. The museum has nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculpture culminating in Rodin's Temptation of St Anthony in the old chapel on the ground floor. There is a wonderful collection of sixth- to nineteenth-century Japanese and Chinese ceramics displayed with medieval sculpture. Paintings on offer are Gino Severini's La Famille du Peintr, one of Monet's Thames series, La Petite Niçoise by Berthe Morisot; and Degas' Café-Concert aux Ambassadeurs . There are also pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Rubens, Zurbarán, El Greco, Tintoretto among others. |