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Title
General View
Contributor
Hourihane, Colum, 1955- (contributor)
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Contributor
Hourihane, Colum, 1955-
Date
January 1, 1220
Identifier
FCW023AGA010
Description
Gothic; Thomas the Apostle WindowDeremble-Manhes no. 23, Delaporte window no. 46It is appropriate that, in the great edifice of Chartres, a window is dedicated to St. Thomas who was thought to have been an architect. Delaporte notes that Chartres once had a relic of this saint; a hand (Lautier, 2003, 60-61). The major source for the legend of Thomas was the apocryphal gospel of that name. The Chartres lectionaries (the 10th century mss. 507 (f 374r) and the 12th century mss. 500 (f 12v)) contained the life of Thomas, but these did not contain the specific episodes shown in this window.8.97 by 2.2 metersThe Corpus Vitrearum sets the date of most of the panels in this window as between 1220-30, but proposes that panel 1 (Doubting Thomas examining Christ’s wounds) was added in 1240.Location: North aisle, second chapel from the axial chapel. Based on the mutilated state of the border and background, Manhes-Deremble suggests that this window was originally intended for the axial chapel, the chapel of the Apostles. (p. 59)Restored and panels reordered in 1923 by Lorin.; The Thomas the Apostle Window
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Cathédrale de Chartres--Pictorial works.
Church decoration and ornament--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.
Church architecture--France--Chartres--Pictorial works.
Christian art and symbolism--France--Chartres--Medieval, 500-1500--Pictorial works.
Geographic Subjects
France
Chartres
Collection
Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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