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Auch Cathedral - Arnaud de Moles windows
  • By mke1963 on August 19, 2007
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    Very little is known about 16th Century Gascon artist Arnaud de Moles yet he created one of the great artistic treasures of the Renaissance - the eighteen stained glass windows of Auch cathedral. The whole series, created in or around 1513, also has suspected hidden meanings - a real-life Da Vinci Code if you like - that is still not fully understood. It has been suggested that, complicated as the series of windows is, there is even more hidden away. For example, the very first window (Creation of the World) has 28 different elements or themes and that is one of the most simple; the next set has 60 elements and other possible subsets. Even on the face of it, many of the windows require a 'key' to decode the main themes (the key is usually held by a sybil - for example, a palm in the hand of the sybil on the right of the second set of panes).

    De Moles windows, each one a major work of art in its own right, forms a quite incredible series of art, weaving multiple stories, themes, messages and morals through the eighteen pieces.

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