Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . ast window of the choir clerestoryof Soissons Cathedral contains a Jesse tree withseveral fine old figures but no Jesse at the window to the right south of this has scenesfrom the life of Adam and Eve. The secondwindow on the south seems to contain the Life,Death, and Assumption of the Virgin. These windows are beautiful and interesting from 302 STORIED WINDOWS their largeness of conception and richness of colour,though much of the glass is
Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . ast window of the choir clerestoryof Soissons Cathedral contains a Jesse tree withseveral fine old figures but no Jesse at the window to the right south of this has scenesfrom the life of Adam and Eve. The secondwindow on the south seems to contain the Life,Death, and Assumption of the Virgin. These windows are beautiful and interesting from 302 STORIED WINDOWS their largeness of conception and richness of colour,though much of the glass is modern. In the north transept is a rose filled with fineancient glass of the end of the thirteenth centuryor beginning of the fourteenth. In the cathedral of Soissons the south transepthas the very unusual shape of a complete apse withan ambulatory. In the lower part of it are round-arched Romanesque window-frames of the eleventhcentury. There is also a fine picture by Rubens of theAdoration of the Shepherds, and a piece of Gobelinstapestry depicting St Gervais and St Protais, thegift of Millet, who was Bishop of Soissons from1443 to TROCADERO MUSEE, PARIS. (No. i.) Chlrch Trrmphant, with a Chalice and the Standard of the CrossOVER the drooping XIIth Centlrv Medallion from Chalons pp. 195, 226, 284. 303 CHAPTER XXXVIL VINOENNES, MONTMORENCY, ECOTJEN. In passing through Paris, the traveller, after seeingthe thirteenth-century glass of the Sainte Chapelle,and visiting the Musee de Sculpture at theTrocadero, to see the beautiful old glass of thetwelfth and thirteenth centuries from Chalons,Vend6me, Bourges, Gercy, Notre Dame, Poitiers,St Julien du Sault, and Toul, should go outsideParis to visit the lovely and interesting glass ofthe Renaissance at Vincennes, Montmorency, andEcouen. The chapel inside the Chateau of Vincennes wasbegun in 1378 on the model of the Sainte Chapelle,but it was not completed till the reign of HenriDeux, who was prese
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