François Taureilles was a stained-glass artist active in the Auvergne during the first decades of the twentieth century. Based in Clermont-Ferrand, he supplied numerous parish churches in the region with new glazing programmes that combined traditional Gothic motifs with the luminous colour and clarity of modern French craftsmanship. His work belongs to the generation of regional ateliers that continued the revivalist spirit of the late nineteenth century while refining it through simplified design and a renewed emphasis on devotional legibility.

Taureilles’s signed windows—such as those in Église Saint-Joseph at La Bourboule—display a disciplined draughtsmanship and a restrained but vibrant palette, favouring deep blues, rubies, and greens balanced by clear and white glass to maximise interior light. Figures are rendered with calm modelling and gentle expression, avoiding the sentimentality of some contemporaries in favour of quiet dignity and spiritual clarity. Decorative borders, often geometric or stylised in form, provide structure without distracting from the central imagery.

Although documentation of his studio’s extent is limited, surviving signed examples attest to a thriving regional practice that served parish commissions throughout the dioceses of Clermont and neighbouring Puy-de-Dôme towns. Taureilles represents the enduring vitality of local stained-glass production in provincial France at a time when major metropolitan workshops dominated the national scene.

His oeuvre reflects a transitional moment between the ornate historicism of the nineteenth century and the simplified modernity of interwar ecclesiastical art—a synthesis in which tradition, craftsmanship, and pastoral devotion are harmoniously reconciled.