The walls of the great cloister of St-Jean in the 15th century
THE FRESCO OF THE GATES OF POWER

The exhibition consists of two sections.

The Fresco of the City Gates

1. The Port St-Jean Panel (The Market): This panel illustrates the Chapter’s control over foodstuffs: the canons collecting taxes on produce and vegetables, a reminder that the Church was the primary “steward” of vital resources.
   • Resonance: Questioning who, today, controls access to our “food” (pricing algorithms, large purchasing cooperatives).
2. The Painting of the Froc Gate (The Law): Located toward the north, it symbolized the entrance into the jurisdiction of immunity. Here, the artist depicts the separation between the King’s justice (external) and that of the Cloister (internal).
   • Resonance: Visualize “free zones” or modern tax havens—those invisible enclaves where common rules no longer apply.
3. The Painting of the Bishop’s Palace Gate (Political Power): Representing pomp and diplomacy, this painting depicts the archbishop not as a spiritual guide, but as a temporal prince dealing with the great European powers.

A Second Exhibition with the Françoise Besson Gallery

And a second exhibition in the four bay windows of the Catholic Diocese of Lyon, at 6 Avenue Adolphe Max, next to the St-Jean Episcopal Palace in Vieux-Lyon, in partnership with the Françoise Besson Gallery, Lyon