Circourt, church - stained glass window
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This vertical, semicircular stained-glass window represents Saint-Pierre-Fourier.
This vertical, semicircular stained-glass window depicts Saint Peter Fourier, a major figure in the spiritual and educational revival of Lorraine at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The saint is depicted standing, facing forward, dressed in the black habit of the regular canons of Saint Augustine, of whom he was a reformer. He raises his right hand in a teaching gesture, while his left hand holds an open book. A golden halo surrounds his head. ST. PIERRE FOURIER is clearly inscribed in a cartouche at the bottom of the window, in white letters on a red background. The architectural decoration is richly ornamented with fluted columns, Corinthian capitals, a classical entablature, and a background motif of drapery. All around, we find the foliage, vegetal scrolls typical of 19th-century aesthetics, in a neo-Renaissance style very common in French churches at this time.This vertical, semicircular stained-glass window depicts Saint Peter Fourier, a major figure in the spiritual and educational revival of Lorraine at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The saint is depicted standing, facing forward, dressed in the black habit of the regular canons of Saint Augustine, of whom he was a reformer. He raises his right hand in a teaching gesture, while his left hand holds an open book. A golden halo surrounds his head. ST. PIERRE FOURIER is clearly inscribed in a cartouche at the bottom of the window, in white letters on a red background. The architectural decoration is richly ornamented with fluted columns, Corinthian capitals, a classical entablature, and a background motif of drapery. All around, we find the foliage, vegetal scrolls typical of 19th-century aesthetics, in a neo-Renaissance style very common in French churches at this time.
This vertical, semicircular stained-glass window depicts Saint Peter Fourier, a major figure in the spiritual and educational revival of Lorraine at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The saint is depicted standing, facing forward, dressed in the black habit of the regular canons of Saint Augustine, of whom he was a reformer. He raises his right hand in a teaching gesture, while his left hand holds an open book. A golden halo surrounds his head. ST. PIERRE FOURIER is clearly inscribed in a cartouche at the bottom of the window, in white letters on a red background. The architectural decoration is richly ornamented with fluted columns, Corinthian capitals, a classical entablature, and a background motif of drapery. All around, we find the foliage, vegetal scrolls typical of 19th-century aesthetics, in a neo-Renaissance style very common in French churches at this time.
