Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . they are distinctly failures. Forinstance, the window in the Chapelle des Tullierhas deteriorated so much in the enamel of the facesthat it is quite smudgy, and in a vastly inferiorstate to that of the superb window of a centuryearlier in the Chapelle of Jacques Coeur. Howeverbeautiful the original picture may have been, aworn-out window of the middle of the sixteenthcentury is contemptible in comparison with the 208 STORIED WINDOWS enduring windows
Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . they are distinctly failures. Forinstance, the window in the Chapelle des Tullierhas deteriorated so much in the enamel of the facesthat it is quite smudgy, and in a vastly inferiorstate to that of the superb window of a centuryearlier in the Chapelle of Jacques Coeur. Howeverbeautiful the original picture may have been, aworn-out window of the middle of the sixteenthcentury is contemptible in comparison with the 208 STORIED WINDOWS enduring windows of the twelfth, thirteenth, four-teenth, and fifteenth centuries. The fading windowsof Jean Lescuyer and Linard Gontier may please thePeintre Verrier, but the ordinary observer feels thatthey are miserable productions when compared withthe Crucifixion window of Poitiers made severalcenturies earlier. It is devoutly to be hoped thatthe modern glass artists will take the Poitierswindow or the window of Jacques Coeur as theirmodel, and use no enamel paint except the old hardblack enamel of the ancient craftsmen who producedsuch abiding .MOILIXS CATllICnRAL. ENLARCKD IOKTUAII Ol PiKKRi:, IhSHANO OK l^AKHK CADIKK. 209 CHAPTER XXVII. MOULINS CATHEDRAL. In returning from Bourges to Paris it is not muchout of the way to go round by Moulins, which issixty-six miles from Bourges. It is well worthwhile to do so, for the late fifteenth-century windowsat Moulins are most interesting in comparison withthe windows at Bourges made earlier in the samecentury; and good fifteenth-century glass is socomparatively rare that it is always wise to seizean opportunity of seeing it. Moulins Cathedral hasa modern nave, but the Flamboyant choir was builttowards the end of the fifteenth century, between1474 and 1508. Consequently all the old glass isconcentrated in the choir, where there are twelvewindows or portions of windows, four on the northside, four in the straight wall at the east end, andf
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