Gabriel Loire - Vaxoncourt - St Martin church
Vaxoncourt
Artist : Gabriel Loire
Type of buildings : Religious building
Architect : Gustave Marchal
Antique glass set with lead painted in grisaille, 16 windows, 70 m², Gustave Marchal architect in Thaon-les-Vosges, models in archives
1956: 12 bays in the nave, 60.48 m²
subjects on mosaic: Paschal lamb with the chalice receiving the blood of its wounds, deer at the fountain, doves drinking from a chalice, pelican, fish, basket of bread, manna in the desert, mystical cluster brought back from the land of Chanaan, tabernacle , Abraham receiving the bread and the wine from the hands of Melchisedec, shewbread kept in the temple, the 4 rivers of Paradise: Geson, Phison, Tigris, Euphrates. Ears and clusters, Chalice, Monstrance, Ciborium, Tabernacle, lamp of the Blessed Sacrament, the Mass of St Gregory the Great, the fountain of life, the mystical press.
1 bay of the grandstand, 4.42 m² in abstract composition
1958: 3 bays for the facade in abstract composition
Gabriel LOIRE
(1904-1996)
