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Nine Crowned and Seated Figures (Martyred Crusaders?)

Nine Crowned and Seated Figures (Martyred Crusaders?)France, Abbey of Saint-Denis, Crusading Window (?)
c. 1146- 1148 or c. 1158
Pot metal glass
75.4 x 77.3 (29 5/8 x 30 3/8)
Fillets and surrounding ornament are modern; some replacement, notably the central group of heads which is a stopgap

Provenance: Léon Bonnat, Paris; Augustin Lambert, Paris
Bibliography: François de Guilhermy, “D_tails historiques. Saint-Denis, 1840-1872, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS nouv. acq. fr. 6121, fol. 89r; Ferdinand de Lasteyrie, Histoire de la peinture sur verre d’apres Jes monuments en France (Paris, 1853-1857) l: pl. III; Charles-Jules Labarte, Histoire des arts industriels au Mayen age et a l’epoque de la Renaissance (Paris, 1864-1866) l: 318; Grodecki (1976), 691 115-121, ills. 178, 179, 181; Grodecki (1977), 94; Jane Hayward in Crosby et al. (1981), 96-97; Jane Hayward in Hayward and Cahn (1982), 93-95; Sauerländer (1982), 386; Louis Grodecki, “Un Signum Tau a Saint-Denis,” in M_langes Jacques Stiennon (Liege, 1983), 342; Marie-Madeleine Gautier, Les routes de la foi. Reliques et reliquaires de f erusalem a Compostelle (Paris, 1983), 52; Madeline H. Caviness in Gerson (1986), 259; Brown and Cothren (1986), l-40, pls. l-5, 10; Cothren (1986A), 417.

Collection: The Glencairn Museum (Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania)
Object/Accession: 03.SG.111

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Entry From: Checklist II Filed Under: Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, The Glencairn Museum

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