Il diluvio

Valentin Bousch French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 502

Questa vetrata, insieme a Mosè presenta le Tavole della Legge, anch’essa conservata nel Museo, e ad altre cinque vetrate, ornava il coro della chiesa del convento benedettino di Saint-Firmin in Flavigny-sur-Moselle, in Lorena. L’ opera fu commissionata dal priore, Wary de Lucy, e fu realizzata da Valentin Bousch di Metz, uno dei più bravi maestri vetrai della Francia nord-orientale durante il Rinascimento dei paesi settentrionali. Bousch rifiutò la tradizionale suddivisione in compartimenti, trattando invece ciascuna composizione come un enorme retablo dipinto o intagliato all’interno di una cornice architettonica a trompe-l’œil. Vivaci tonalità di vetro colorato si frammischiano ad aree dipinte a grisaille e col nitrato d’argento su vetro trasparente, tagliato con straordinaria maestria.

The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz

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The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz
The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz
The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz
The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz
The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz
The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz
The Deluge, Valentin Bousch (French, active 1514–41, died 1541), Glass, painted and stained, French, Lorraine, Metz

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