Life of John the Baptist (Moncontour)

Window Life of John the Baptist in Moncontour

The window Life of John the Baptist in the Catholic Church of Notre-Dame-St-Mathurin in Moncontour , a French commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the Brittany region , was created between 1535 and 1540. The leaded glass window was added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 1862 as Monument historique .

The window in the choir was created by an unknown workshop. It shows various scenes from the life of John the Baptist (see captions).

The three angels in the tracery were created by Albert Bonnot in 1891/93.

In addition to the window Life of John the Baptist , five other windows from the Renaissance period have been preserved in the church (see navigation bar).

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  An angel appears to Zacharias (left), the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (right)

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  Birth of Johannes and his naming (right)

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  Herodias and Herod (left), John is taken to prison (right)

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  Feast of Herod (left), John is beheaded

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  Donor couple: Jean Le Mintier with the evangelist Johannes and Marie Le Moine with St. Catherine of Alexandria

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , p. 737.
• Françoise Gatouillat, Michel Hérold: Les vitraux de Bretagne. (= Corpus Vitrearum ). Volume VII, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, ISBN 2-87535-0151-3 , p. 83.

Web links

Commons : Life of John the Baptist (Moncontour)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vie de Jean le Baptiste in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 41 ″  N , 2 ° 37 ′ 58.2 ″  W.