Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . resting Assumption of the Virgin, whichnow occupies two lights of a window in the northSt. Maclou. aisle of St. Maclou in the same city. A significantpoint about this glass is that the picture, whichis enclosed by a wide, flat-arched canopy, delicatelymodelled, stretches right across both lights, com-pletely ignoring the intervening mullion, one ofthe first hints that stained glass was forgettingits architectural mission.^ The composition ismuch more ambitious and pictorial, and thedrawing more advanced than in any of the glasswe have hith
Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . resting Assumption of the Virgin, whichnow occupies two lights of a window in the northSt. Maclou. aisle of St. Maclou in the same city. A significantpoint about this glass is that the picture, whichis enclosed by a wide, flat-arched canopy, delicatelymodelled, stretches right across both lights, com-pletely ignoring the intervening mullion, one ofthe first hints that stained glass was forgettingits architectural mission.^ The composition ismuch more ambitious and pictorial, and thedrawing more advanced than in any of the glasswe have hitherto considered. In front is a crowdof kneeling saints in robes of blue, red, and green,above whom the Virgin kneels before the Almighty,while the top of the picture is filled with rows ofgolden-haired angels with red wings on a blue ^ It is true that the glass is not now in its original position, but Ithink it must always have filled two lights. PLATE XLVIII ANGELS HEAD. FROM GREAT ROSE WINDOW IN NORTHTRANSEPT OF ST. OUENS, ROUEN Fifteenth Century ^. FIFTEENTH CENTURY GLASS IN FRANCE 249 ground, of a similar type to those illustrated. 1 shouldput the date of the window at about 1470-80. Of about the same date are the side windows The Ladyof the Lady Chapel of the Cathedral at Evreux, Si^^?^^ ^*of which the building was finished, I believe, in1475. I am surprised that Mr. Westlake, in hisnotice of the chapel, only mentions the east windowwith its Jesse tree, which to me is much lessbeautiful than the others, and which I should beinclined to attribute, at the earliest, to the veryend of the century, if not to the following four side windows tell the story of ChristsMinistry, Passion, and Resurrection, and show Hissecond coming. Their arrangement is somewhatEnglish, each window having two tiers of lights,each of which has a subject enclosed in a whitecanopy, but the technique is different from theEnglish. By far the best is the first window ofthe series, which contains ei
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