Gothic

Tree of Jesse - Tours Cathedral

 

This late 13th century window, above the choir at Tours cathedral. The 18 panels in the main part of the window depict the Tree of Jesse running up the center of the window, and the childhood of Christ on either side. The panels in the tracery contain representations of Abraham and Isaac, and an Angel with a Lamb stopping the sacrifice of Isaac.

 

Tympanum - Saint-Maclou Rouen

 

 

The tympanum above the central porch, of Saint-Maclou in Rouen depicts Christ in Majesty at the Last Judgement in four registers.

Unidentified Saint Composite Window - Abbey Church of Saint-Ouen, Rouen

Composite Window

This window (c1550) is a composite assemblage combining fragments of sixteenth-century narrative glass with nineteenth-century architectural framing and extensive twentieth-century restoration. The programme appears to have depicted episodes from the life of an unidentified saint. According to Jean Lafond, one of the surviving scenes may represent the translation of relics, suggesting a cycle related either to Saint Ouen or Saint Leufroy. The identification, however, remains uncertain due to the fragmentary nature of the surviving iconography.

w.202 St Peter & St Paul - Bourges Cathedral

Window 202 contains a paired representation of the two foundational apostles, Peter and Paul. The window forms part of the southern run of apostolic lancets in the choir clerestory , executed by the same workshop responsible for the coherent sequence between w.202 and w.212.

w.204 St Andrew and St John - Bourges Cathedral

St John the Evangelist - Bourges choirWindow 204 consists of two tall lancets forming part of the celebrated early thirteenth-century clerestory glazing of Bourges Cathedral. The saints represented, Andrew on the left and John the Evangelist on the right, are shown as full-height standing figures beneath architectural canopies, framed by the characteristic geometric borders of the Bourges workshop.

w.206 St James the Greater, St Philip, and St Thomas - Bourges Cathedral

St Thomas

Window w.206 forms part of the major early 13th-century glazing programme of the choir clerestory at Bourges Cathedral. Like the other apostolic lancets in this zone, it presents three full-length apostles standing beneath architectural canopies, each framed by the characteristic red–blue geometric borders of the Bourges workshop. The style, palette, and facial types align closely with the glazing campaigns dated to c.1210–1215.

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