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BristolConference - Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

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Isabelle Lecocq<br />

(Institut Royal du Patrimoine<br />

Artistique, Brussels)<br />

Le patronage seculier dans les Anciens<br />

(xve et XVIe siecles)<br />

Pays-Bas au travers des recueils des 'hermits d' armes'<br />

La marque iconographique la plus evidente du patronage seculier dans le domaine du<br />

vitrail ancien est la figuration des donateurs et de leurs armes. C'est precisement ce<br />

caractere qui a eveille I'interet des 'herauts d'armes'. Des notes et des recueils de ces<br />

officiers qui parcouraient eglises et couvents ant ete conserves. Ils sont d'un interet<br />

considerable pour I'etude du vitrail dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Plus que tout autre<br />

document, ils permettent d'estimer I'importance des disparitions et de retrouver la trace<br />

de vitraux qui ne seraient pas connus par ailleurs et qui evoquent par leur thematique,<br />

divers signes et conventions, la piete des donateurs laiques.<br />

Plusieurs recueils de ce type conserves a la Bibliotheque royale de Bruxelles seront<br />

presentes.<br />

Secular Patronage in the Netherlands<br />

in the collections of Heralds (15 th and 16 th Centuries)<br />

The most common iconographic feature of secular patronage in medieval glass is the<br />

depiction of donors and their arms. It was precisely this feature that awakened the interest<br />

of 'heralds'. The notes and collections of these officials, who visited churches and<br />

monasteries, have been preserved. They are of considerable interest for the study of stained<br />

glass in the Netherlands. More than any other kind of document, they make it possible to<br />

assess the importance of lost glass and to rediscover stained glass that would not otherwise<br />

be known, evoking through their themes, various signs and conventions, the piety of lay<br />

donors.<br />

Several collections of this type preserved in the Bibliotheque royale, Brussels will be<br />

presented.<br />

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