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Monument to Louis de Brézé - Rouen Cathedral

walwyn Tue, 09/06/2011 - 20:48

This monument to Louis de Brézé (d1531) is the work of Jean Goujon (1510-1572) who was commissioned by Diane de Poitiers, Louis wife. Louis was the son of  King Charles VII of France's illegitimate daughter Charlotte de France.

Scenes from the life of St. Peter - Saint-Étienne de Beauvais

walwyn Tue, 11/08/2011 - 23:45

 

 

 

This window in Saint-Étienne de Beauvais, is dated 1548 and i9s signed by Nicolas le Prince. It contains three scenes from the life of St Peter, and the conversion of St Paul on the Road to Damascus.

 

 

Decapitation of John the Baptist - Saint Romain-sur-Cher

walwyn Thu, 02/04/2010 - 02:11

 

The church at Saint Romain sur Cher was rebult in the C16 and restored in the C19. The north and south walls of the apse are painted with scenes of the Decapitation of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Christ on the north wall, and on the south wall is the Resurrection. Both of these paintings were restored in 1859.

 

 

Legend of Saint Romain - St. Godard

walwyn Sun, 11/14/2010 - 17:35

 

 

1540 stained glass in St Godard Rouen tell the story of Saint Romain (Romanus).

 

 

 

Lady Chapel - Life of the Virgin

walwyn Tue, 07/09/2024 - 19:38

 

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.

The Death and Assumption of the Virgin - Bourges Cathedral

walwyn Thu, 07/11/2024 - 23:34

 

 

Created in 1619 this late Death and Assumption of the Virgin stained glass window is in Bourges Cathedral France.

Warwick - Last Judgment after Michelangelo

walwyn Fri, 10/21/2011 - 20:13

This "Doom" painting in St Mary's Warwick, is copy (1678), by Richard Bird, of Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The left hand side of the work has been restored but the right hand side left unrestored at present.

 

Tomb of Ottaviano Fabrizio Mossotti - Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa

walwyn Sat, 11/10/2012 - 18:40

 

 

Allegorical figure of Science on the tomb of the physicist Ottaviano Fabrizio Mossott (d1863) in the Camposanto Monumentale, Pisa, by the sculptor Giovanni Duprè.

 

 

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