Bourges is not known particularly for its great 12th and 13th century windows. But we found them clean, well-identified, low-down, particularly in the ambulatory, so low-down you could
touch them. A singular experience!
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The colors are no less amazing than Chartres:
here, Lazarus and the Rich Man |
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| The axe-man cometh |
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| Last supper, Mary Magdalene washing Jesus' feet |
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| Someone getting baptised |
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| :Prodigal Son window |
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A major part of what we like about reading these windows: here, (the window)
a gift of the Brotherhood of Butchers |
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| Beautiful color; here, the Discovery of the Relics of St. Stephen |
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| Window of the Good Samaritan |
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| Detail from the Judgment window |
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| Kiss of Betrayal |
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| Nice devils |
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| Nero setting something on fire |
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| Glass-blowers window |
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| International Garment Workers' Window |
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Joseph being put down into or taken up from the well; I could go on...there
are scores of windows and hundreds of scenes, some obscure to our 21st
century eyes, many quite plain and easy to see in our 21st century ways |
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