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Articles

The Ex-Voto Window at St.- Gengoult, Toul

Pages 123-133 | Published online: 14 Aug 2014
 

Abstract

An unusual Gothic medallion window in St.-Gengoult, Toul, groups three seemingly unrelated saints' lives: Nicholas, Agatha, and Agapit, the latter here identified for the first time. Two male donors shown under flames suggest that the window is an ex-voto. Nicholas, invoked against “undeserved peril,” and Agatha, specialist in fires, had cult sites in Lorraine. Agapit, invoked for children's teething, had had an altar in the Romanesque church of St.-Gengoult. Schwabian Romanesque liturgical manuscripts depict him hung upside-down over flames. A Romanesque window with this image probably prompted the donors to invoke Agapit, also suggesting the medium of their ex-voto to the Gothic church.

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Meredith Parsons Lillich

Meredith Lillich's many publications on medieval stained glass include The Stained Glass of Saint-Père de Chartres (1978), as well as articles in Gesta, the Burlington Magazine, the Art Bulletin (1983), etc. She is a contributor to the Corpus Vitrearum and currently has in press a book entitled The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France 1250-1325. [Department of Fine Arts, 441 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244]

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