Stained glass window, Chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Angers

King Rene kneeling in prayer before going hunting, the Virgin Mary and King Rene's wife Jeannne de Laval kneeling in prayer, stained glass window, 15th century, painted by Andre Robin, originally in the Abbaye du Louroux-en-Vernantes or Abbaye de Louroux, a Cistercian abbey founded 1121 in Vernantes, then moved to the Eglise Notre-Dame in Vernantes in 1812, then in 1951 to the Chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the Chateau d'Angers, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. The Chateau d'Angers in the Loire Valley was founded in the 9th century by the counts of Anjou, and expanded in the 13th century. It is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13459453

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45395931

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7087px x 4725px (13.5MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen