The Lady Chapel at Bourges Cathedral has three stained glass windows from the late 16th century that tell the stories surrounding the Life of the Virgin Mary.
France
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Oct
2009
Lavergne, Claudius - Paris
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Claudius Lavergne was among the foremost figures of the mid-nineteenth-century revival of stained glass in France, a painter and critic whose intellectual formation under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and collaboration with Adolphe-Napoléon Didron positioned him at the intersection of academic draughtsmanship, historical research, and religious reform.
30
Oct
2009
Lavergne, Noël - Paris
Submitted by walwyn
Worked alongside his father, Claudius Lavergne, and took over the business after his father death in 1887.
1540 stained glass in St Godard Rouen tell the story of Saint Romain (Romanus).
Dated 1554 this window depicts scenes from the Life of St Eustace.
This four light window (1467-1469) in the north wall of the Lady Chapel at Evreux Cathedral, depicting scenes from Life of Christ, was a gift to the cathedral by King Louis XI of France.
Polychrome reliefs on the north of the choir screen tell the story of the life of John the Baptist.
Depicting the Life of Saint Joan of Arc, these designs were created by Max Ingrand in 1956 as part of the Sainte Joan quincentenary celebration appeal. They are installed in the Chapelle Saint Jeanne d'Arc in Rouen cathedral.
This window depicting the Life of St Martin is one of the choir clerestory windows at Tours Cathedral. The main window consists of some eighteen panels in six registers and is dated to the completion of the just after the rebuilding of the chancel in last part of the 13th century.
The abbey church of Saint-Taurin in Evreux contains three mid 15th century stained glass windows in the apse that tell the story of Saint Taurin, the first bishop of Evreux.
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