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    GE_18.09: Saint Louis de Gonzague recevant la communion de saint Charles Borromée
    (GE_Geneve_BasiliqueNotreDame_18.09)

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    Title

    Saint Louis de Gonzague recevant la communion de saint Charles Borromée

    Type of Object
    Stained glass
    Artist / Producer
    Cingria, Alexandre
    Studio
    Marcel Poncet
    Dating
    1916
    Dimensions
    425 x 76 cm (lancette)
    Location
    Basilique Notre-Dame, Genève
    Place
    Transept, s IX
    Inventory
    Geneva (Canton)

    Iconography

    Description

    Au sommet, dans un trilobe, on trouve la Basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome. Sur la lancette de gauche, saint Louis de Gonzague, de dos, communie. L’évêque tient l’hostie. Sur la lancette de droite, saint Louis s’avance sous la protection de son ange gardien.

    Iconclass Code
    11H(ALOYSIUS GONZAGA)21 · St. Aloysius Gonzaga receives the first communion from St. Charles Borromeo
    11H(ALOYSIUS GONZAGA)9(+3) · the Jesuit friar Aloysius Gonzaga; possible attributes: crucifix, discipline, lily, skull - portrait of male saint (+ angel(s))
    Iconclass Keywords
    Charles Borromeo (St.) · first communion · portrait · receiving
    Inscription

    CAELESTI / CONVIVIO FAC NOS / DOMINE / nuptiali veste indutos / ACCUMBERE / QUAM BEATI / ALOYSI / PIA PRAEPARATIO JUGES / LACRIMAS / INESTIMABILIBUS / MARGARITIS ORNABANT (lancette de gauche, en haut) // ANGELORUM / ESCA NUTRITAS ANGELICIS / Etiam DOMINE da / Moribus / VIVERE ET / BEATI / ALOYS / QUEM COLIMUS EXEMPLO / in gratiarum / SEMPER ACTIONE / MANERE (lancette de droite, en haut) / DONUM SOCIETATIS JUVEN TOE PAROCHIALIS 21 JUNII 1916 (lancette de droite, en bas)

    Signature

    A. CINGRIA PINXIT / ANNO DOMINI 1916 (lancette de gauche en bas à droite)

    Technique / State

    Technique

    Vitrail au plomb, grisaille

    History

    Research

    Les textes sont tirés de l’ancienne messe de la fête de saint Louis.
    Registre des annonces paroissiales du 9 juillet 1916.

    Dating
    1916

    Bibliography and Sources

    Literature

    Abbé Lany, Notre-Dame de Genève: notice, Genève, 1868

    Edmond Ganter, “Alexandre-Charles Grigny (1815-1867) architecte de l’église Notre-Dame de Genève”, in Genava – Genève, tome 26, Genève, 1978, pp. 277-285

    Armand Brulhart et Erica Deuber-Pauli, “Rive droite”, in Ville et canton de Genève, coll. “Arts et monuments”, SHAS, Berne, (1ère éd. 1985) 1993, pp. 147-148

    Claude Lapaire, Notre-Dame de Genève, Paroisse Notre-Dame, Genève, 2000

    Anastazja Winiger-Labuda (coord.), “La basilique Notre-Dame”, in Genève, Saint-Gervais: du bourg au quartier, coll. “Les monuments d’art et d’histoire du canton de Genève”, tome 2, SHAS, Berne, 2001, pp. 152-167

    Catherine Courtiau, La Basilique Notre-Dame de Genève, SHAS, Berne, 2013

    Image Information

    Name of Image
    GE_Geneve_BasiliqueNotreDame_18.09
    Credits
    © APAS (Association pour la Promotion de l'Art Sacré), Genève – photographe : Cyrille Girardet, Veyrier
    Date
    2006
    Copyright
    © Ayants droit

    Inventory

    Reference Number
    GE_18.09
    Author and Date of Entry
    Valérie Sauterel 2008
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