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The oldest complete Jesse Tree window is in Chartres Cathedral, 1145. The symbolic device of the Tree of Jesse has featured in Christian hymns since at least the 8th century , when Cosmas the Melodist wrote a hymn about the Virgin Mary flowering from the Root of Jesse, Ραβδος εκ της ριζης (translated in 1862 by John Mason Neale ...
Chartres' windows are celebrated for their cobalt blue, known as "Chartres blue" or "Romanesque blue", which first emerged in the workshops at Saint-Denis Basilica in the 1140s and was also used at Le Mans Cathedral. With a sodium base coloured with cobalt, it is the more resistant than reds and greens of the same era.
Chartres Cathedral, (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, ... Tree of Jesse / Prophets: Old Testament Narratives (Esther, Judith, Samson, Gideon and Tobit)
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Each of the windows also contains a medallion which illustrates its donors; the butchers for the Miracle of the Virgin Window, the water-carriers for the Story of Mary Magdalene window. The cathedral also has an early Tree of Jessé window, illustrating the genealogy of Christ in the shape of a family tree imagined in a dream by the prophet Jesse.
Pages in category "Chartres Cathedral" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Jesse Tree at Chartres Cathedral; L. List of bishops of ...
Jehan (Jean) Texier or Le Texier (before 1474 – 29 December 1529 in Chartres [1]), better known as Jehan (Jean) de Beauce was a 15th/16th-century French architect. He is known for his works of religious architecture, notably on the Chartres cathedral of which he reconstructed the northern spire.
Detail of a "Tree of Jesse" window in Reims Cathedral designed in the 13th-century style by L. Steiheil and painted by Coffetier for Viollet-le-Duc (1861) St Louis administering Justice by Lobin in the painterly style, Church of St Medard, Thouars (19th century)