Don't forget Jane Welch Williams' "Bread, Wine, & Money: The Windows of
the Trades at Chartres Cath." U of Chicago, 1993. She discusses Prod.
Son and Bourges and has a huge bibliography.
KW
Christopher Crockett wrote:
>
> Jennifer Rinalducci wrote:
>
> >I am researching the "Prodigal Son" window at Chartres Cathedral as
> compared to other Gothic churches (like Bourges). I am considering
> issues such as iconography, donors, etc. ...I would appreciate any advice on
> where to look.
>
> Dear Jennifer,
>
> I know as next to nothing about the 13th century glass at Chartres (much less
> Bourges) as could be and still lay some slight claim to viable consciousness,
> but a good place to start on any Chartres topic is Jan van der Meulen's
> massive bibliography, _Chartres: sources and literary interpretation: a
> critical bibliography_, Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1989.
>
> For the glass, the touchstone work remains, even today, that of the learned
> Canon Yves Delaporte, _Les vitraux de la cathédrale de Chartres, histoire et
> description_, Chartres: É. Houvet, 1926. (1 vol. of text, two or three of
> plates)
>
> More specifically, I seem to recall an important article on the style of some
> windows at both Chartres and Bourges by the late French art
> historian and glass specialist, Louis Grodecki.... but I cannot, alas,
> remember where it was published (early 60's?) and don't have my van der Meulen
> with me here in Lotus Land.
>
> Eventually the authoritative work on the Chartres windows will be put together
> by Jim Bugslag and that on Bourges, perhaps, by Richard Schneider. Some few
> of us may live to see such a happy day.
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Christopher
>
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