Glorification of the Virgin (Notre-Dame-en-Vaux)

Window Glorification of the Virgin

Detail with scenes of the death of the Virgin and the Ascension

The stained glass window Glorification of the Virgin in the Notre-Dame-en-Vaux church in Châlons-en-Champagne , a French city in the Grand Est region , was created around 1525. The Renaissance window has been classified as a monument historique since 1840 .

history

The window was donated by Nicolas Lallement and his wife Marguerite from Châlons-en-Champagne. Until the restoration of the window in 1901, the date of the foundation, 1526, was still visible in the window.

description

The stained glass window was made by Mathieu Bléville , who also made other windows in the Notre-Dame church. Window no. 25 (based on the scheme of Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi ) was inspired by the cycle of Albrecht Dürer's Das Marienleben (1510). In the middle axis the death of Mary is shown below, above her ascension and coronation in the center. This main scene is flanked by the Birth of the Virgin (left) and the funeral procession of Mary (right), during which, according to legend, unbelieving Jews went blind and some who were converted were made sight again by the apostles.

At the bottom left you can see the founder with St. Margaret kneeling and on the right outside the founder with St. Nicholas (the respective patron saints).

In the tracery , the symbols of the four evangelists and angels with the instruments of passion can be seen.

Other windows in the same church

literature

Jean Fusier: Vitraux des églises de Châlons-en-Champagne . Itinéraires du patrimoine No. 303 ( ISSN 1159-1722 ), ed. from the Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles de Champagne-Ardenne, 2005, ISBN 2-87825-345-0 , pp. 10-14.

Lecture

Images et décors: Mathieu Bléville, peintre verrier de Saint-Quentin - Michel Herold Université de Picardie Jules Verne - Colloque Trame - Picardie Flamboyante du 21/11/2012 to 23/11/2012

Web links

Commons : Glorification of the Virgin (Notre-Dame-en-Vaux) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Glorification de la Vierge in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Schreiner : > Marias Heimgang <(Transitus Mariae) as a source of anti-Jewish pictorial forms . In: Ders .: rituals, signs, images. Forms and functions of symbolic communication in the Middle Ages , Cologne (Böhlau) 2011, p. 244ff.

[1] Klaus Schreiner : > Marias Heimgang <(Transitus Mariae) as a source of anti-Jewish pictorial forms . In: Ders .: rituals, signs, images. Forms and functions of symbolic communication in the Middle Ages , Cologne (Böhlau) 2011, p. 244ff.