Root Jesse Window (Gausson)

Fragment of the Root Jesse Window in Gausson

The Root Jesse window in the Catholic Chapel of St-Nicolas in La Chapelle, a district of the French commune of Gausson in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the Brittany region , was created in the 16th century. The stained glass window was added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 1974 as Monument historique .

The central window in the choir was created by an unknown workshop. Only one fragment of the representation of the root of Jesse has survived: King Manasseh and the prophet Ezekiel . The wife of the founder René de Boisboissel, Péronnelle de Plœuc (1520–1553), and the coat of arms is also still there.

The root of Jesse is a widespread pictorial motif in Christian art of the Middle Ages and early modern times. The family tree of Christ is represented in the form of a tree that grows out of the figure of Jesse .

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  Péronnelle de Plœuc with the inscription Ecce virgo

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  Coat of arms of the founder

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. 66.
• Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Volume 2, Flohic Editions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-072-8 , p. 1051.

Web links

Commons : Chapel St-Nicolas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arbre de Jessé in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '17.9 "  N , 2 ° 45' 44.9"  W.