Queen of Sicily and Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy and Tonnerre

Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 88, part 3)

Meredith Parsons Lillich

• Publisher: The American Philosophical Society Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780871693853
• Year: 1998

Following the death of St. Louis, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St. Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the very motifs that made it different -- large donor 'portraits,' elaborate heraldry, lavish name-inscriptions -- were targets of vandalism. This study reconstructs two ensembles in the new style, at Mussy-sur-Seine in southern Champagne & at the medieval hospital of Tonnerre in Burgundy. Both can be connected with the extraordinary figure of Marguerite de Bourgogne. Titled the Queen of Sicily, she was a revered agent of Christian charity of the Gothic era. 50+ illustrations.

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Frontispiece. Marguerite de Bourgogne, Queen of Sicily. Tonnerre, ca. 1293- 95. Inventory no. 1. (after Société d'archéologie et d'histoire du Tonnerrois, Bulletin annuel 1973).
• Illustrations
• PREFACE
• Part I Mussy-sur-Seine and the Problem of its Donor
• Part II Mussy: What Ornament and Heraldry Reveal
• Part III The Hospital of Tonnerre and the Queen of Sicily
• Part IV The Ensemble at Mussy Reconstructed
• Appendix I The Fabulous Genealogy and Heraldry of Pere Jacques Vignier
• Appendix II Tonnerre: The Wooden Statues and the Queen's "Companions"
• Selected Bibliography
• Index