Charles Plessard - Saint Gildas des Bois - Chapel of the community of Sisters of the Christian insertion
Saint-Gildas-Des-Bois
Artist : Charles Plessard
Type of buildings : Religious building
Date : 1947 - 1949
Architect : René Ménard et Maurice Ferre
Technical : Antique glass set with lead
Antique glasses set by lead, 1947: glazed diamonds for 3.77 m², 2 stained glass windows of 67x228 cm or 3.06 m², 1949: 10 stained glass windows, 5.06 m² each and 2 stained glass windows for the small chapel, 6.36 m² each in total about 14 stained glass windows for 70.15 m², René Ménard and Maurice Ferre architectes
(Topics: 1: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, 2: Presentation of Mary at the Temple, 3: Annunciation, 4: Visitation, 5: Christmas, 6: Purification, 7: Recovery of Jesus at the Temple, 8: Marriage of Cana, 9 : Pentecost, 10: empty tomb and assumption, 11: "Here is your mother", 12: Mary's coronation in the sky)
1 model in archives, Followed in the studio by Gabriel Loire
Mosaic enamels and golds of Venice, 1950, Gabriel Loire
Charles PLESSARD
(1879-1972)
Student of Maurice Denis, member of the Atelier d'Art Sacré.
Painter-decorator lived at Sceaux, France, active from the 1930s to the 1960s
