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Church of the Sacred Heart

church, Audincourt, France
Also known as: Sacré-Coeur
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  • Chartres Cathedral: stained-glass rose window
    stained glass
    / 20th century

    …Fernand Léger’s windows for the Sacré-Coeur (1950–52) in Audincourt. Both are by artists whose manner was rather directly translatable into stained glass. It was but a comparatively short step from Matisse’s large coloured-paper collages to the disarmingly simple decorative windows in Vence, but the way Matisse used them to create…

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    …Fernand Léger’s windows for the Sacré-Coeur (1950–52) in Audincourt. Both are by artists whose manner was rather directly translatable into stained glass. It was but a comparatively short step from Matisse’s large coloured-paper collages to the disarmingly simple decorative windows in Vence, but the way Matisse used them to create…

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