Last Judgment (Quéménéven)

Last Judgment window in Quéménéven

The Last Judgment window in Quéménéven , a French commune in the Finistère department of Brittany , was created around 1540. The stained glass window in the Notre-Dame chapel in the Kergoat district was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique in 1898 .

Window number 7 in the choir was created by an unknown workshop. It shows the Last Judgment on two lancets .

In the tracery the judging God the Father is shown, to the left and right of it are angels and cherubins .

In addition to the Last Judgment window , there are nine other remarkable windows from the 15th and 16th centuries in the chapel (see navigation bar).

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  Mary and John , including saints, saint Stephen (with the stones) and saint Francis of Assisi (far right with stigmatization )

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  Five apostles and among them saint, saint Sebastian with arrows and saint Laurentius with grill

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  An angel blows into a shawm

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  A young woman is being persecuted by a demon

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  Tracery with God the Father and angels

literature

• Françoise Gatouillat, Michel Hérold: Les vitraux de Bretagne. (= Corpus Vitrearum ). Volume VII, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, ISBN 2-87535-0151-3 , p. 170.

Web links

Commons : Last Judgment (Quéménéven)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the windows in the Notre-Dame chapel in Kergoat (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jugement dernier in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '52.1 "  N , 4 ° 10' 9.8"  W.