Monday, May 27, 2013

Beauvais: Saint-Etienne Windows

Because of collapsing vaults and revolutions and wars, etc., there is not much stained glass to see in Beauvais, but there are at least a few very nice Renaissance pieces at St. Stephens, most done by one Engrand Le Prince.
Great color


















Great demons; feeding miscreants into the Mouth of Hell



















Great light on the floor


















Which Vicki loves














More hell and damnation; we are both very sure we have seen the guy on the right before,
in stone, somewhere...Orvieto? PS Well, not exactly, but close: see the last item of
http://roadeveron.blogspot.nl/2011/05/orvieto-duomo-reliefs.html

















Curious subject and pose


















Ditto; hacking up a sarcaphogus?














Upper branches of the ever popular Tree of Jesse



















Another nice demon


















St. Martin, or possibly someone else, giving a piece of his
cloak to a beggar



















Interior of the WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!!!!!!














And, walking down crypt-ward to the tomb of some locally-important saint
(St. Firmin actually spent the night in Beauvais; in prison), a nice Eviction

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