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Life of Saint Taurin 2

 

This mid 15th century window in the church of Saint-Taurin, Evreux, contains six scenes telling part of the legend of his life. This first panel tells the part of the legend where he resurrected a girl that had been burnt to death by a devil, on being brought back to life she was apparently unmarked.

 

 

Life of Saint Taurin 3

 

 

15th century stained glass depicting events in the life of St Taurin and the discovery of his relics by St Landulfe.

Effigy of Priest - Radway, Warwickshire

Effigy of Priest - Radway, Warwickshire

This mid-fifteenth-century effigy depicts a priest shown vested for the celebration of Mass, carved in low relief and set beneath an architectural recess.

 

 

Four Latin Fathers of the Church - Bourges Cathedral

 

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.

Four Evangelists - Bourges Cathedral

 

 

This window in Bourges Cathedral dates from 1460s and depict the four evangelists. In the tracery panels is the adoration of the Virgin.

 

 

Death of the Virgin - Lady Chapel Evreux

 

 

This stained glass window (1467-1469) in the south wall of the Lady Chapel at Evreux Cathedral, depicts the Death of the Virgin Mary in the upper registers.

 

 

The Annunciation - Bourges Cathedral

The Annunciation - Bourges Cathedral

This 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

Tree of Jesse - Lady Chapel Evreux

 

 

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.

 

 

Donor and Virgin Panels

This window forms part of the Christological and donor cycle completed around 1467, stylistically linked to the Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi panels. The work is attributed to the Bourges Cathedral workshop, likely under Jean Lécuyer or André Robin, maîtres verriers active 1460–1475.

Life of Christ - Lady Chapel Evreux

 

 

This four light window (1467-1469) in the north wall of the Lady Chapel at Evreux Cathedral, depicting scenes from Life of Christ, was a gift to the cathedral by King Louis XI of France.

 

 

 

Resurrection etc - Evreux Cathedral

This window was donated to the Cathedral by King Louis XI of France in 1467-1469. It's eight panels depicts events from the Resurrection to the Last Judgement of Christ.

 

 

Adoration of the Magi - Bourges Cathedral

Adoration of the Magi

This window depicts the Adoration of the Magi, one of the most accomplished surviving examples of mid-15th-century glass painting in Bourges Cathedral. The composition unfolds across four lights beneath a framework of delicate Gothic canopies enriched with gilded tracery and pinnacles.

Angel Corbels - All Saints Stamford, Lincolnshire

The timber roofs of the nave, chancel, and south-east chapel at All Saints date from the major late fifteenth-century rebuilding of the church, undertaken from c. 1470 onwards under the patronage of the wealthy wool merchants John and William Browne. This campaign transformed the clerestory , aisles, tower, and spire, and included the construction of richly carved angel roofs.

Madonna and Child - San Gaetano, Florence

Madonna and Child - San Gaetano, Florence

This glazed terracotta Madonna and Child, executed between 1470 and 1480, is attributed to Andrea della Robbia . It reflects the mature style of the della Robbia workshop in the later fifteenth century and demonstrates the devotional clarity and technical refinement that made glazed terracotta one of Florence’s most distinctive artistic media.

The relief is located in the church of San Gaetano.

Coronation and Death of the Virgin - Saint-Maclou, Rouen

Coronation and Death of the Virgin

This window (c1470), in the Church of Saint-Maclou, preserves fragments of a mid-15th-century Marian cycle, originally illustrating two principal episodes from the end of the Virgin’s earthly life: the Dormition (Death of the Virgin) in the lower register and the Coronation of the Virgin in heaven in the upper register. Although large sections of the original glazing have been lost, the surviving elements remain representative of the high-quality figure painting produced in Rouen around 1470.

South Transept Rose Window - Evreux Cathedral

 

This rose window in the south transept of Evreux Cathedral was given to the Cathedral by Louis XI of France between 1470 and 1480. It is 6.5 metres in diameter and represents the Coronation of the Virgin in Heaven. Below the rose window the lancet windows in the Gallery contain representations of eight of the Apostles.

 

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