Tonnerre Patrimoine
L'eau, la Pierre, la Vigne...
L'eau, la Pierre, la Vigne...
The monochrome windows
These chapels were spared by the fire of 1556 and still contain stained-glass windows from before the middle of the 16th century.
In these chapels of the choir, the windows are devoted to scenes of the lives of St Peter and St Paul, and are clearly dated to 1541 and 1542. They are testimony of the transformation that took place in the art of stained-glass after 1530, particularly in the workshops of Troyes (a major center of the art), when the deeply colored style of windows of the Medieval era gave way to the monochrome style of the Renaissance.
There are two more monochrome windows above the small entrance door. The one over the door pertains to the theme of “Quo Vadis Domine” and the one in the lancet window to the right represents a bishop.
These windows were restored in 1895 on the initiative of the daughter of the local historian and parish council member, Louis Lemaître, and restored again in 1982 by Sylvie Gaudin.
Présentation et Historique de Tonnerre
Tonnerre apparaît à l’époque romaine sous le nom de Tornodurum, « forteresse ». Pour les Lingons, elle était le capitale du Pagus tornodorensis. Ici, sur la vallée de l’Armançon, s’est créé le Comté de Tonnerre, qui a servi de point de passage entre Paris et Dijon, à l’époque où le roi de France avait des visées sur le duché de Bourgogne. [lire la suite]
Mairie de Tonnerre
Réseaux sociaux
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