La Madeleine

A few blocks away is Salt Lake's La Madeleine Cathedral.  I love cathedrals in general because of their solid stone structure, and the architecture used as an expression of devotion.  But by far I love the bells.  We hear La Madeleine every hour, and on Sundays or special occasions the bells ring for several minutes.

The nearby Utah capitol plays bells too, but they are modern and have a chime-sound to them.  While nice and appreciated, they don't have the grounded, solid sound of an old church bell.

So last week we took our sketch books and sat on the city sidewalk to draw some of the details of La Madeleine.

We took along our little book How to Read Buildings to try to figure out what architectural era the details were from.  (I love that most of the learning in our homeschool is for all of us...unless Geoff is around...he seems to know something about everything.)  We've dreamed up a trip to take a few years from now.  We'll study architecture and art history all year, as well as take some photography classes, and then head to Rome and Florence and a few places in between.  Wanna go?