Index of all Stained Glass

 

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.

AnnunciationThis four-light window depicts the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, a masterwork of mid-15th-century French stained glass and one of the earliest panels in the south ambulatory cycle at Bourges Cathedral. At the centre, the Archangel Gabriel, richly vested in a scarlet cope patterned with gold shells and miniature saintly figures, kneels before the Virgin Mary, who stands at the right holding a book of hours and clothed in green and white robes edged with gold

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