Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . es four famousevents:— (1) The end of the Papal schism under PopeEugene IV, (2) The recovery of Normandy by Jeanne dArcand Charles the Seventh. (3) The appointment of Louis the Dauphin asDuke of Normandy. (4) King Renes gift to the Bishop of Evreux ofthe relics of Mary Cleophas and Mary Salome. Next to this is a window which has in one of thelights a figure of St Denis carrying his mitred headin his hand, and clad in the royal azure robe withgolden
Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . es four famousevents:— (1) The end of the Papal schism under PopeEugene IV, (2) The recovery of Normandy by Jeanne dArcand Charles the Seventh. (3) The appointment of Louis the Dauphin asDuke of Normandy. (4) King Renes gift to the Bishop of Evreux ofthe relics of Mary Cleophas and Mary Salome. Next to this is a window which has in one of thelights a figure of St Denis carrying his mitred headin his hand, and clad in the royal azure robe withgolden fleurs-de-lis, as the patron saint of window is inscribed JEeSSire Haoul tie $zxmxz%cjanome tie ceans tionna cette berriere—i-e., Raoulde Ferrieres, canon of this church, gave thiswindow. Adjoining this is the celebrated Harcourt window,put up, as the inscription says, by Harecourt and hiswife Blanche Auvaugour. This Harcourt, who diedin 1327, held the singular title of Grand Queux( = Cook) of France. The date of the window isabout 1315. The portrait of Harcourt on the rightis excellent; in the centre lights are St Catherine. EVREUX CATHEDRAL. Pedestal of Canopy with Kneeling Figures in the Century. EVEEUX 87 and the Virgin, and on the left is Blanche Catherine has a toothed wheel and a sword. Thelegend is that she was martyred on a wheel set withrazors, but when she touched the wheel it broke andthe razors flew off and cut the throats of the by-standers as in the window in the east wall ofMoulins Cathedral, and a sword was obtained to cutoff her head. There are two pictures of St Catherinewith a wheel and sword both at Ludlow and in theLady Chapel of the cathedral at Oxford. Thesubject is a favourite one in French windows ; thefinest examples are in the nave of Angers Cathedral,and in the east wall of Moulins Cathedral. Thelegend caused the name Catherine wheel to be givento the firework in 1760. The arrangement of theHarcourt window has
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