Jean Chastellain

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Jean Chastellain (* 1490, † around 1542) was a French glass painter of the Renaissance .

Live and act

Fragment of a lead glass pane in the Carnavalet Museum, formerly in the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church in Paris
Leaded glass window in the Saint-Martin church in Herblay-sur-Seine , with signature on the ointment vessel

The name Jean Chastellain is mentioned in 1527 in invoices for stained glass windows that he created for secular buildings and the chapels of the castles of Fontainebleau and Villers-Cotterêts . Two other windows, the south rosette from 1532 and the window depicting the unbelieving Thomas ( l'Incrédulité de saint Thomas ) from 1533, both in the church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris, can be ascribed to him on the basis of documents . In 1531 he created one of his most important windows, La Sagesse de Salomon ( Solomon's Wisdom), for the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church in Paris .

Until his death, Jean Chastellain received orders for the royal buildings. Further orders for church windows are only recorded for the year 1540. For the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont he created the window Saint-Nom de Jesus (Holy Name of Jesus) with scenes of the Holy Trinity and the stoning of St. Stephen . In the church of Saint-Merry , in the windows depicting scenes from the life of the Apostle Peter, several panes by Jean Chastellain have been preserved, which were reassembled by Prosper Lafaye in the 19th century .

Jean Chastellain, who was influenced by Raphael's style , often worked from Noël Bellemare's cardboard boxes .

Laurent Marchant, the son-in-law of Jean Chastellain, used his cardboard boxes for the window L'offrande des reliques de Jean Baptiste à Guillaume de Champagne in the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Nemours , which led Guy-Michel Leproux to falsely name this window Jean Attributed to Chastellain.

In the church of Saint-Martin in Herblay-sur-Seine there is a window with a representation of a Pietà , on which the signature CHASTELLAIN can be seen on the upper edge of the ointment vessel of Mary Magdalene.

Works

  • around 1517: Vie de la Vierge (Mary's Life), windows 0, 1 and 2, in the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church in Paris
  • 1530: South rosette, in the Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois church in Paris
  • around 1530/35: Procession de Notre-Dame d'Argent , formerly in the Church of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais, today in the Musée Carnavalet , after boxes by Noël Bellemare
  • 1531: La Sagesse de Salomon (Solomon's Wisdom), window 16, in the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church, after boxes by Noël Bellemare, restored by Joseph Félon in 1868/70
  • 1532/33: L'Incrédulité de saint Thomas (The Unbelieving Thomas), window 120, in the church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, after boxes by Noël Bellemare
  • 1540: Saint-Nom de Jesus (Holy Name of Jesus), window 101, in the Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church in Paris, after boxes by Noël Bellemare
  • around 1540: window 110/112/114 with scenes of the sermon, the capture of the apostles and the life of the apostle Peter, in the church of Saint-Merry in Paris, after boxes by Noël Bellemare

  • Solomon's wisdom

  • Solomon's wisdom

  • Solomon's wisdom

  • Solomon's wisdom

literature

  • Aline Dumoulin, Alexandra Ardisson, Jérôme Maingard, Murielle Antonello: Paris. D'Église en Église . Éditions Massin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7072-0583-4 , p. 74 u. 111.
  • Guy-Michel Leproux: Vitraux parisiens de la Renaissance . Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris (Ed.), Paris 1993, ISBN 2-905118-46-6 .
  • Guy-Michel Leproux: La peinture à Paris sous le règne de François Ier . Presses Paris Sorbonne, Paris 2001, ISBN 978-2-8405-0210-4 .
  • Elisabeth Pillet: Le vitrail à Paris au XIXe siècle. Entretenir, conserver, restaurer . Corpus Vitrearum France - Études IX, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2010, ISBN 978-2-7535-0945-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jean Chastellain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy-Michel Leproux: Vitraux parisiens de la Renaissance . Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris (Ed.), Paris 1993, pp. 132f., ISBN 2-905118-46-6
personal data
SURNAME Chastellain, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Renaissance stained glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
DATE OF DEATH around 1542