[FR] La plupart des fenêtres date du XIIIè siècle et possède une remarquable unité de style, due à son installation en une trentaine d'années seulement. La plupart des vitraux des fenêtres basses sont consacrés à des scènes de la vie des saints ou de la Vierge, à des paraboles de l'Evangile ou des épisodes de l'Ancien Testament, mais aussi à des scènes où l'histoire nationale française rejoint l'histoire sainte : le baptême de Clovis, l'épopée de Charlemagne.
[EN] They represent the richest collection in Europe both in terms of their age and their beauty.
Stained-glass masters applied all their talents to these windows in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Each bay of the aisles and the choir ambulatory contains one large lancet window, most of them roughly 8.1m high by 2.2m wide. The subjects depicted in these windows, made between 1205 and 1235, include stories from the Old and New Testament and the Lives of the Saints as well as typological cycles and symbolic images such as the signs of the zodiac and labours of the months. Most windows are made up of around 25–30 individual panels showing distinct episodes within the narrative – only the Belle Verrière includes a larger image made up of multiple panels.
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Vie de Saint Lubin / Life of St Lubin (Leobinus) |
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Vie de Saint Eustach / Life of St Eustace |
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La vie de Joseph / Joseph the Patriarch |
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Vie de Saint Nicolas / Life and miracles of St Nicholas (III) |
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La Passion typologique / Typological Passion |
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La parabole du Fils prodigue / The Parabol of the Prodigal Son |
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Vie de Saint Thomas / St Thomas the Apostle in India |
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Vie de Saint Julien Hospitalier / Life of St Julien the Hospitaller |
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Chapelle des martyrs / The martyrs chapel |
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Vie de Charlemagne / The Legends of Charlemagne |
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Vie de Saint Jacques le Majeur / The Life of St James the Greater |
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Vies des Saints Simon et Jude / The Lives of St Simon and St Jude |
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Les Apôtres / The Apostles |
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Vie de Saint Sylvestre / The Life of Saint Sylvester |
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La chapelle des confesseurs / The Confessors Chapel |
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Vie de Saint Martin / Life of St Martin of Tours |
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Zodiaque et Travaux des mois et Vie de la Vierge / Labours of the Months / Signs of the Zodiac and Life of the Virgin |
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Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière et L'Histoire des saints Antoine et Paul / Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere and The Life of St Anthony of the Desert |
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Miracles de Notre-Dame / The miracles of Our Lady |
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Mort et Assomption de la Vierge / The miracles of Our Lady |
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Parabole du Bon Samaritain / The Good Samaritan/Genesis Typological Window |
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Histoire de sainte Marie-Madeleine / Life of St Mary Magdalen |
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Histoire de saint Jean l'Evangéliste / The Life of Saint John the Evangelist |