Chapel of the Sacred Heart - Beauvais Cathedral

walwyn Sat, 11/05/2011 - 22:52
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Roncherolles renaissance stained glass Engrand le Prince

 

The Sacred Heart Chapel in Beauvais Cathedral contains this stained glass window by Engrand le Prince., It was commissioned in 1522 by Louis de Roncherolles chamberlain and councillor to Francis I of France.

 

Saints Hubert Christopher, Crucifixion renaissance stained glass Engrand le Prince

 

The upper part of the window contains a crucifixion with St Hubert and his stag to the left, and St Christopher to the right. In the tracery is the Coronation of the Virgin.

 

Louis de Roncherolles renaissance stained glass Engrand le Prince

 

In the lower part of the window the central panel shows a pieta, whilst on the left and right are the donors Louis de Roncherolles with St Louis on the left, and on the right is his wife Françoise d'Halluin with St Francis of Assisi.

 

Francis of Assisi and Françoise d'Halluin renaissance stained glass Engrand le Prince