Tree of the Sibyls (Étampes)

Tree of the Sibyls in Étampes

A window in the Notre-Dame-du-Fort church in Étampes , a town in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region , is called the tree of the Sibyls . The lead glass window was created around 1550/60 and has been included in the list of cultural monuments as Monument historique since 1840 .

history

In the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance , analogous to the representation of the root Jesse , in other languages ​​also known as the tree Jesse , the tree of the sibyls can be found in art .

description

Starting from a trunk at the very bottom in the middle lancet, the twelve sibyls are shown, which are supposed to be branches of this trunk. Above the sibyls, King David is depicted on the left and Isaiah on the right , above which is Mary with the child as the coronation .

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  Sami Sibyl

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  European sibyl

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  Sibyl of Erythrai

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  Phrygian Sibyl

See also

• Root Jesse Window (Groslay)

literature

• Louis Grodecki , Françoise Perrot, Jean Taralon (eds.): Les vitraux de Paris, de la région parisienne, de la Picardie et du Nord-Pas-de-Calais . (= Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi ). Récensement des vitraux anciens de la France. Volume 1, Éditions du Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-222-02263-0 , p. 80.
• Georges Poisson (ed.): Dictionnaire des monuments d'Île-de-France. Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84334-002-0 , p. 313.

Web links

Commons : Tree of the Sibyls (Étampes)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tree of the Sibyls (Étampes): Description as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)