Resumen de "Des peintures des XIIIe et XIVe siècles dont quelques-unes sont gaufrées": le jubé de la cathédrale de Nevers retrouvé
Paintings from the 13th and 14th centuries: some of which are embossed: the rediscovery of the rood screen of the Catedral of Nevers.
The author presents the body of "painted stones" of the Cathedral of Nevers, of which three, representing the Dormition of the Virgin were published in 2001. Judith Kagan connected them to the enclosure of the catedral choir and placed their realization in the 1350s, by a painter under the influence of Parisian and Avignonnais circles. A return to the dossier on the occasion of the project for the presentation of the stones enables us today to establish a body of nineteen blocks and elucidates the iconography consecrated to the Childhood of Christ, the Passion, and the Death of the Virgin. The material observation of the blocks, carried out with the aid of the Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques (Research Laboratory of Historical Monuments) led the author to the recognition of the stones of the catedral rood screen parapet, destroyed in 1769. This identification is confirmed by the structural and iconographical comparision with the rare French rood screens confirmed or partially preserved for the 13th and 14th centuries. The archeological digs carried out in 1965 specified the placement of the rood screen and archival sources placed their execution in the 1330s. Finally, the remarkable artistic quality of this painted ensemble, as much in the mastery of space and volumen as in the attention for detail, underlines the proximity of the painter of the Nevers rood screen with the Parisian universe, especially with the painting of Jean Pucelle. The article thus present a new artist and reveals the materiality of an unpublished Gothic rood screen, a rare preserved painted example from French 14th century.
