Lot n° 72
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École de «l'Ouest de la France», milieu du XIIIe siècle
Rondel, stained glass window in violet, yellow and green representing a nun giving alms over a wall.
Diameter : 35 cm
(restorations, additions and transformations)
The iconography of this stained glass window could make us think of Saint Radegonde who from the convent founded by her against the Roman wall of the city of Poitiers was giving alms over the wall; She holds in one hand the book of the rule, chosen by Saint Caesarius of Arles and which she proposed for the monastery of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers, and in the other hand, some coins which she throws away, a masonry wall in front of her.
A recent thesis on the stained glass windows of the cathedral of Le Mans allows us to formulate a hypothesis in order to bring this rondel closer to the work of the "Western School".
Indeed, art historians, notably Louis Magne since 1885, put forward the idea of a "Western School". This school is situated at the extreme end of the 12th century, then goes until the end of the 14th century for other researchers; M. P. Lillich uses it for the provinces formerly belonging to the Plantagenets which pass in the 13th century into the domain of the Capetians. This "school" is defined as a gothic expressionism: "the vivid colouring, the dense painting, strongly charged with grisaille and dominated by thick lines, characters with very well-built rectangular faces, staged in postures full of vitality" according to Françoise Perrot in "Note bibliographique sur les vitraux du chevet de la cathédrale de Tours: entre L'ouest et l'Ile-de-France", Congrès archéologique de France, 155e session, 1997, Touraine, 2003, p 326-327.
These elements characterizing the production of this school allow us to compare our stained glass element with those of the axial chapel of the cathedral of Saint Julien in Le Mans, especially in the features forming the chin and the mouth, the fine eyes and the thick eyebrows. (fig)
Book consulted: M. Godlevskaya, Les vitraux du XIIIe siècle de la cathédrale du Mans, Aspects iconographiques et stylistiques, Thèse de doctorat ss dir de C Andrault-Schmitt et A. Rastorguev, Univ de Poitiers, June 2013
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