The So-Called Sainte-Chapelle Windows of Soissons Cathedral: Another Look
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Meredith Parsons Lillich
Abstract
The stained glass in the axial chapel of Soissons Cathedral was moved there from the nave in the late eighteenth century. It was made circa 1250 by the “principal atelier” of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, and consists of fragments that survived the Huguenot attacks of 1567. This study establishes that these figural fragments glazed the nave aisles, while coeval grisailles – which survive only minimally – glazed the nave clerestories. The grisailles, known chiefly from nineteenth-century drawings, thus provide evidence for the nave glazing in the Lower Chapel of the Sainte-Chapelle, which was lost in 1690.
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Photo Credits: 1 Photo: Painton Cowen. – 2 Author. – 3 Ancien 1982 (as note 20), 18, fig. 4. – 4 Photo: Jane Hayward. – 5 Photos: Painton Cowen. – 6 Author, adapted after: Ancien 1980 (as note 2), after 145. – 7 Westlake 1881 (as note 36), 137, plate LXXXI a – e. – 8 Fleury 1882 (as note 36), 123, fig. 591. – 9 Lewis F. Day, Windows: A Book About Stained and Painted Glass, London 31909, 139, figs. 108 and 109. – 10 Photos: Jean Ancien. – 11 Bourassé and Manceau 1849 (as note 39), 189, plate XVII. – 12 Photo: Mary B. Shepard.
© 2016 Meredith Parsons Lillich, published by De Gruyter
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