Stained glass window, Nevers Cathedral, Nevers

Stained glass window designed by artist Jean Michel Alberola, b. 1953, and made by master glassmaker Dominique Duchemin, in the Romanesque South transept in Nevers Cathedral, or Cathedral of Saint Cyricus and Saint Julitta of Nevers, Nevers, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. Here, an orange arch displays the tau, or tav, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, also the symbol of the cross, and the symbolic numbers 144 and 000 - 12 is the perfect number and 1000 the number of plenitude. The project to commission contemporary stained glass windows in the cathedral was begun 1987-88 under Dominique Bozo, and they were inaugurated on 29th April 2011. The building is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Picture No

13437931

Media ID

45151984

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5315px x 5082px (5.2MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen