Stained glass window in monochrome, allegorical... - Lot 47 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins

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Stained glass window in monochrome, allegorical... - Lot 47 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Moulins
Stained glass window in monochrome, allegorical window of the woman, traditionally associated with the sin of temptation In the background we see Adam and Eve accompanied by God who shows them the forbidden tree! They are on a rock surrounded by trees, a palm tree. In the distance, the sun is rising. At their feet, a river flows with a boat and ducks In the foreground a woman showing her breasts is looking at herself in a mirror France 17th century. H_18 cm W_24 cm, may be a restoration or a defect of firing of the glass The iconography of this stained glass window comes from the "Querelle des Alphabets", a new episode of the "Querelle des femmes". Catherine Pascale: "At the dawn of the seventeenth century, when female power and prestige tended to increase at court (with regents and literate princesses) as well as in the city (with the development of worldly salons), women, "agents of Satan", were more than ever an abyss of perdition under the scurrilous pen of their detractors. The author of the Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes, a work whose first (anonymous) publication in 1617 triggered the "Querelle des Alphabets", a new episode in the "Querelle des Femmes" during which violent critics and ardent advocates of women were to engage in a verbal battle, draws up a frightening catalogue of women's inadequacies and defects in this virulent indictment of women, of which the "Table of Contents" already provides an overview. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a specifically feminine vice, representing as many immemorial symbols of perdition and disorder that women are capable of creating not only in the domestic sphere, but also in the public sphere of the kingdom. To the grievance against her impenitent cackling ("G. Garrulum guttur Gosier babillard") are added those, more serious, against her perfidy ("F. Falsa fides Fausse foi"), her deceit ("M. Mendacium monstruosum Monstrueux mensonge"), her superbness ("S. Sylva superbiae Forest d'orgueil"), her violence and her taste for revenge ("H. Herinis armata Herine armée") and, above all, her lust, which is manifested as much in her lustful instinct ("C. Concupiscentia carnis Concupiscence of the flesh") as in the art of adorning or farding herself ("V. Vanitas vanitatum Vanité des vanitez"). In the eschatological perspective of a Christian history of the world, the woman, traditionally associated with the sin of temptation, naturally embodies this flaw of "vanity", as Fénelon will still firmly remind the Duke and Duchess of Beauvillier, to whom he sets out to lavish practical advice for raising their nine daughters, at the very end of the 17th century, in his Treatise on the Education of Girls: " Bibliography: "Vanity, compositions of the end" under the direction of Marie Blaise & Sylvie Triaire - Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée Expert: Mr François de Lavaissière
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