Jean Hey peintre sur verre?: le vitrail des Popillon à la Collégiale du Moulins: bénéfices d'une restauration
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Michel Hérold [1]
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[1] INHA
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- Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 194, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Restauration), págs. 23-32
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
Jean Hey, painter on glass? The stained glass of the Popillon in the Moulins Collégiale: the benefits of restoration.
The painter during the end of the Middle Ages retains the privilege for the invention of forms. He regularly appears as the author of models for most of the domains of artistic life. Stained glass, for which he provided life size models or cartoons, counts within his ordinary field of action. Some appear as polyvalent artists. Jean Hey, the author of the famous Moulins triptych, was above all a painter on wood panel and exceptionally an illuminator. Did he try to paint on glass? The question has been debated for a long time, with as object of the main study, the remarkable stained glass window offered around 1500 to the Moulins Collégiale by the Popillon family. Observations and analyses recently carried out in the occasion of the restoration of a part of this stained glass window enhance with new data this complex dossier. They underline several points of the technical particularities of this stained glass, the use of "jaune d'argent" (silver yellow) following a recipe of Antonio de Pisa and of a "red paint" probably a sanguine. All these particularities translate the efforts of a painter for shaking up workshop habits in order to find materials that are suited to his art. The result are not entirely satisfactory, the stained glass, ill suited for exposure to light coming from the south, thus became prematurely deteriorated.
