Published on November 29, 2024 at 9:45 p.m. / Modified on November 29, 2024 at 9:46 p.m.
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Ariana once again comes out “from her reserves” to exhibit her collection of stained glass windows.
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From 1140 to 2007, two hundred pieces tell the story of stained glass
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In the exhibition, the Escalade stained glass window, a mysterious heritage piece.
On a blue background rimmed with red, an angel with green and gold wings, a green halo, blond hair, and a white dress, balances a censer. The circle in which he fits, his face, his body, the cloud on which he rests, are translucent. This angel conveying light is a stained glass window, created around 1250 in the Paris region. Before entering the collection of Gustave Revilliod, founder of the Ariana Museum, at the end of the 19th century, it once adorned the north rose of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.
Today we can see this angel among 200 stained glass windows from the collections of the city of Geneva. Glass works from all periods – the oldest piece dates from 1140, the most recent from 2007 – appear, backlit, in the darkness of the crypt-like vaulted basements of the Ariana Museum.
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