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Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France (1914)

Bushnell, Arthur J. de Havilland · Edinburgh : W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 257

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erchant ofBourges, whose palatial house is such an ornament tothe town, and it contains the finest known windowof the fifteenth century. The date of the windowis about 1450, but in the perfection of design anddrawing it anticipates the work of the early Renais-sance of half a century later. The… … HOLRGHS CATHEDRAL.Chapki. of jAcgiKs CcEiR.—The Anni xciation. 1450. BOUEGES CATHEDRAL 203 shield of France, upheld by a white figure. Atthe top of each pair of lights is a heart (Coeur) instone, containing shields of the Dauphin and hiswife, supported by two figures. The four lightscontain a…

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