FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55  
56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   >>  
nto six partitions, which represents _the history of Adam_. It is in this chapel that we find a very curious cover of some baptismal-fonts, which was brought from the ancient church of Saint-Etienne. The bas-reliefs, which ornament it, represent _the Passion of Jesus-Christ_. In the sort of lantern, which surmounts the cover, is _a Resurrection_. These sculptures on wood, which are of great beauty, are of the beginning of the XVIth century. At the farther end of the chapel, is a fresco painting by Pecheux representing _the baptism of Jesus-Christ_. In the next chapel, which is dedicated to Saint-Theresa, we see _Sainte-Genevieve_, the patroness of Paris. In her left hand she holds a book, and in her right a lighted taper. Satan tries to blow it out with a pair of bellows, while, behind the saint, an angel is ready to light it again. These different painted glasses were brought from Saint-Maur. In the chapel of Saint-Joseph, is a painted window representing _Saint-Stephen before his judges_. In the chapel of the Virgin, which is opposite, we see _Saint-Stephen stoned_; these two painted windows belonged to the church of Saint-Etienne-des-Tonneliers. Some glasses of the higher windows, brought from Saint-Martin-sur-Renelle, represent _the passion of our Lord_. In the choir, in the chapel to the left, _Tobit burying the dead_, above we see _the resurrection of Lazarus_; in the same window _Job on the dunghill_; and underneath, _the Lord's supper_. In another chapel of the choir, opposite to the former, is _Jesus-Christ in the temple, overthrowing the tables of the money-changers_; beside it, is _the rich man at table_; Lazarus is at the outside of the door. The stained glass of these two chapels belonged to Saint-Maur. Most of them, from the richness of their coloring, and the perfection of their execution, are very remarkable. Under the dome at the lop of the nave, are five different fresco, paintings which represent different acts relative to the life of the patron of the church. One represents _the consecration of Saint-Romain as bishop_; in another, _he overthrows the pagan temples_; farther on, is _the miracle of the dragon or Gargouille_; next to it, is the procession of the shrine to obtain the deliverance of a prisoner, a ceremony which was instituted after the miracle of which we have already spoken. The _apotheosis of Saint-Romain_ crowns these four paintings. At the top of the sanctuary, behind the
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55  
56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   >>  



Top keywords:

chapel

 

represent

 

brought

 
painted
 
church
 

Christ

 

representing

 
fresco
 

farther

 

window


Lazarus

 

paintings

 

miracle

 
Romain
 

Stephen

 

opposite

 

belonged

 
windows
 

glasses

 
Etienne

represents

 
stained
 

history

 

perfection

 
execution
 

remarkable

 

coloring

 

richness

 

chapels

 

changers


dunghill

 

underneath

 

resurrection

 

supper

 
tables
 

overthrowing

 
temple
 
deliverance
 
prisoner
 

ceremony


obtain

 

shrine

 

Gargouille

 
procession
 

instituted

 

sanctuary

 

crowns

 
apotheosis
 

spoken

 
dragon