Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 48
essed Virgin Mary as Mother of God and as Patron-ess of the church; the Western windows proclaimthe majesty of Jesus Christ, Judge of the living andthe dead. In the Southern windows, Jesus is Doctor;in those of the North side, the Virgin appears as theRefuge of Sinners. The round window of the… … THE STAINED-GLASS WHOSE . . . MYSTERIOUS TONES SOFTEN ITSMASSIVE LINES.—CHARTRES. 25 Chartres 27 figures of holy personages; and the lancets of the op-posite transept, containing the Evangelists mountedon the backs of Prophets, symbolise rather awkwardlythe New Dispensation reposing on the…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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