This window is a composite assembly combining fragments of sixteenth-century stained glass with nineteenth-century architectural structures and extensive twentieth-century restoration. The present arrangement consists of five tall lancets surmounted by a unified canopy system reconstructed in 1852, with bases and pedestals also installed at that time.
In addition to the martyrs, the south porch contains a sequence of images of those that had proclaimed Christian beliefs during periods of suppression (confessors).
Decorated in about 1240 the spandrels below the north portal contain sculpures depicting the Creation.
The creation story craved in stone in the quatrefoils on either side of the Portail des Libraires at Rouen Cathedral.
The Crucifixion window in the Church of Saint John ⓘ the Baptist at Montrésor, in the Indre-et-Loire region of France, is one of the finest surviving examples of early sixteenth-century stained glass in the Loire Valley. Filling a tall Gothic lancet divided into several vertical lights, it unfolds as a vivid narrative of the Passion of Christ, rendered in rich Renaissance color and form.
The two kneeling benefactors are thought to be Louis II of Chalon and Jeanne de Perellos.
This stained glass window (1467-1469) in the south wall of the Lady Chapel at Evreux Cathedral, depicts the Death of the Virgin Mary ⓘ in the upper registers.
The church at Saint Romain sur Cher was rebult in the C16 and restored in the C19. The north and south walls of the apse are painted with scenes of the Decapitation of John the Baptist ⓘ and the Baptism of Christ on the north wall, and on the south wall is the Resurrection. Both of these paintings were restored in 1859.
This stained glass window is dated between 1210 and 1215. Illustrating the discovery of the relics of St Stephen ⓘ from a dream by Lucian. This window is situated in the ambulatory of Bourges Cathedral.
Triptych by Noël Lavergne depicting the Nativity, crucifixion, and resurrection.
