Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle

The windows in the charnier house gallery at Saint Étienne du Mont have always been considered by researchers to be major works of the art of stained glass. The present study proposes to explain in what way they are so singular. They are unique by the diversity of their subjects, remarkable and inte...

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Auteur principal: Engert, Tamara
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Publié: 2019
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spelling cairn-RDA_204_0033RDARevue de l'art https://shs.cairn.info/revue-de-l-art-2019-2-page-33?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rda.204.0033 Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle Engert, Tamara2019 fre Revue de l'art | 204 | 2 | 2019-10-26 | p. 33-40 | 0035-1326 RDA_20472 The windows in the charnier house gallery at Saint Étienne du Mont have always been considered by researchers to be major works of the art of stained glass. The present study proposes to explain in what way they are so singular. They are unique by the diversity of their subjects, remarkable and intensely current in the theological discourse of the period. They are also unusual in borrowing almost all the motifs from extremely varied graphic types, from history and allegory to images of typological arguments. The transposition of the medium of engraving into stained glass engenders the possibilities of radically different receptions. Instead of accompanying texts, of an invitation to devotion or to private meditation, the new spatial context of the charnier houses opens to other themes, liturgical rituals and texts, and catechesis. Through the change in the setting and the strategies of communication atypical in stained glass of its time, the scenes became invested with new messages, current and in the context of the place. That these complex iconographic combinations and these strategies of rhetoric in the image produced a coherent ensemble is to the credit of an entire identifiable network of ecclesiastics, donors, and artists.Cairn free access
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description The windows in the charnier house gallery at Saint Étienne du Mont have always been considered by researchers to be major works of the art of stained glass. The present study proposes to explain in what way they are so singular. They are unique by the diversity of their subjects, remarkable and intensely current in the theological discourse of the period. They are also unusual in borrowing almost all the motifs from extremely varied graphic types, from history and allegory to images of typological arguments. The transposition of the medium of engraving into stained glass engenders the possibilities of radically different receptions. Instead of accompanying texts, of an invitation to devotion or to private meditation, the new spatial context of the charnier houses opens to other themes, liturgical rituals and texts, and catechesis. Through the change in the setting and the strategies of communication atypical in stained glass of its time, the scenes became invested with new messages, current and in the context of the place. That these complex iconographic combinations and these strategies of rhetoric in the image produced a coherent ensemble is to the credit of an entire identifiable network of ecclesiastics, donors, and artists.
author Engert, Tamara
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Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle
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title Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle
title_short Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle
title_full Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle
title_fullStr Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle
title_full_unstemmed Un ensemble singulier du début du XVIIe siècle
title_sort un ensemble singulier du début du xviie siècle
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