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Crucifixion with Saints and Virgin (cell 38)

walwyn Mon, 04/12/2021 - 21:17

 

 

Crucifixion fresco (1441-2) by Fra Angelico in cell 38 on the second floor of the San Marco convent.

Adoration of the Magi (cell 39)

walwyn Sun, 04/11/2021 - 22:01

 

 

Cell 39 on the second floor of the San Marco convent was reserved for Cosimo de Medici. The fresco on the wall is the Adoration of the Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli.

Tomb of Agnes Sorel - Loches, France

walwyn Sun, 10/23/2016 - 15:24

 

 

Agnès Sorel (d1450) was the mistress of King Charles VII of France to whom she gave birth to three daughters to Charles VII.
 

Tree of Jesse - Lady Chapel Evreux

walwyn Fri, 07/27/2012 - 20:50

 

 

This stained glass window in the Lady Chapel of Evreux Cathedral was a given to the cathedral by King Louis XI of France between 1467 and 1469.

 

 

Rouen France

walwyn Sun, 11/14/2010 - 15:55

 

These pages document medieval stained glass in the churches of Rouen.

Beauvais - France

walwyn Sat, 07/30/2011 - 19:06

Some of the 16th century and earlier stained glass that can be found in Beauvais France. In particular the works of the le Prince family in Beauvais Cathedral and the parish church of St Ettiene.

 

Effigy of Don Garcia de Osorio - Toledo, Spain

walwyn Thu, 07/08/2010 - 01:00

This funerary monument depicts Don García Osorio, a knight of the Order of Santiago, shown in repose with hands crossed upon his sword, a symbol of both chivalric honor and Christian faith. Carved in Toledo (1499-1505), probably by a sculptor influenced by Egas Cueman or Sebastián de Almonacid.

 

 

 

Effigy of Donna Maria de Perea - Toledo, Spain

walwyn Wed, 07/14/2010 - 17:41

Effigy of Donna Maria de Perea

 

 

Effigy of Donna Maria de Perea wearing a simple dress and with rosary in her hands.

 

 

 

Tomb of the Children of France - Tours Cathedral

walwyn Sun, 10/21/2012 - 23:28

This tomb, in Tours cathedral, by Michel Colombe was made in 1506 for the two sons of Charles VIII of France and Anne of Brittany. It is reputed to be the first tomb in the region that was made in the Italian style.

Tree of Jesse - St Godard, Rouen

walwyn Thu, 02/24/2011 - 22:00

 

 

This Tree of Jesse in the church of St Godard Rouen, is the work of Arnoult de Nimégue (1506).

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