MedievalArt.org.uk - Photographs by Dr Stuart Whatling Angers Cathedral - the Medieval Stained Glass To view details, click the enabled bay numbers in the diagram below, or the captions below right.
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Choir Windows
100a - The Passion (relocated)
100b - Infancy of Christ (relocated)
101a+b - Life of St Julien of Le Mans
102a - Life of St Maurille of Angers
102b - Life of St Martin
103a - Life of St Laurence
103b - Tree of Jesse
104a+b - Life of St Martin (relocated)
107a - Life of St Peter
107b - Life of St Eloi
108a - Life of St Thomas Becket
108b - Life of St John the Baptist
Nave & Transept Windows
119 - Life of St Andrew
121 - Life of St Vincent
123 - Death of the Virgin
125 - Life of St Catherine
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Overview:
Angers suffered the usual iconoclastic assaults by Huguenot mobs (1562) and again during the
Revolution, as well as long periods of neglect and clumsy restorations. Chronologically the surviving windows
seem to cover a range from around 1180 (bays 121, 124 and 125 are probably the earliest) through to the middle
of the 13th century - although such datings are based on stylistic grounds alone and should, as always, be
treated with a pinch of salt. The only 13th century narrative windows not included here are bay 116 (John the Evangelist) and
bay 127 (Infancy of Christ), neither of which I was able to photograph.
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