France

Evreux - France

There are two churches in the town of Evreux that contain extensive amounts of medieval stained glass a) the cathedral of Notre-Dame, and b) the abbey church of Saint-Taurin.

Evreux Cathedral

Medieval stained glass at Evreux Cathedral.

Four Evangelists - Bourges Cathedral

This window in Bourges Cathedral dates from 1460s and depict the four evangelists. In the tracery panels is the adoration of the Virgin.

Four Latin Fathers of the Church - Bourges Cathedral

This four-light window depicts the Four Great Fathers of the Western Church—St Ambrose, St Jerome, St Augustine ⓘ, and Pope Gregory the Great ⓘ—framed beneath an elaborate Gothic canopy. In the tracery lights above unfolds a Last Judgement scene, in which Christ appears in glory surrounded by angels and the resurrected dead, reinforcing the doctrinal authority of the Fathers through the lens of divine revelation.

Gérard de Conchy - Amiens Cathedral, France

Monument to Gérard de Conchy (d1257).

Glass panels from Saint-Denis

"Presentation in the Temple" panel originally from Saint-Denis near Paris (c1145).

Glass panels from Sainte-Chapelle

Originally in la Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité in Paris. This medieval panel (c1245) and others are now in St James Twycross, Leicestershire.

Gothic Sculpture in France

Gothic sculpture in France occupies a foundational position in the history of medieval art. From the mid-twelfth century onward, French sculptors developed a new figural language closely bound to architecture, theology, and royal ideology. Unlike the more restrained and linear tradition of Britain, French Gothic sculpture is characterised by an early and sustained drive toward monumental naturalism, expressive presence, and narrative clarity, with sculpture conceived as an integral and dominant component of cathedral façades, portals, and interior articulation.