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Our Final Carved Armorial Memorial in the Cathedral of Our Lady
And now we come to the last large carved armorial memorial in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium.Like the one highlighted in our last post, this one, too, is to more than one generation in a...
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Armorial Stained Glass Windows in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
Today we begin to look at the (many) armorial stained glass windows in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium.There's a bunch of them, and they are all wonderful creations of the glazier's art!I...
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A Surprisingly Spanish Window
The central motif of the armorial stained glass window that we're looking at is the Adoration of the Magi. This window was donated by the Dassa-Rockox family. The images of Ferdinando Dassa and Barbara...
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Wow. Just, wow.
Who knew that it was truly possible, in this day and age, right now in the 21st Century, to have people call for something to be banned because, among other things, they especially didn't like a...
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An English Window in Antwerp Cathedral
Following the unexpected Spanish window in our last post, we come to an unexpectedly English window. (As always, you may click on an image to see a larger, and more detailed version, something that I...
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What Are Those Arms in the Bottom Corners of This Window?
So this time we come to those two mysterious coats of arms at the bottom corners of the window to King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York in the cathedral in Antwerp. (If you click on the image...
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A Companion for the English Window
Two 1503 stained glass windows in the Cathedral of Our Lady, in Antwerp, Belgium, commemorate the Intercursus Magnus, the important commercial treaty that the Burgundian and English sovereigns...
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Nobody Expects the ... Austrian Archdukes?
(My apologies to anyone who doesn't quite understand the title of this post; it's a take-off of a line from an old Monty Python skit, where the main line is: "Nobody expects the Spanish...
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A Royal Window in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
I have to admit, I have somewhat mixed feelings about this next window. On the one hand, it's wildly heraldic, with the coats of arms and territorial arms of its donors, and so is worth sharing. On the...
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A Window with Two Armorial Saints
We have looked at a number of armorial stained glass windows in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, in the last few weeks.If you will recall from those posts (or, of course, if you'd prefer...
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Memorializing Not an Individual, But an Event
The next armorial window we're going to look at is less about commemorating the donors (and their coats of arms) than it is an event: in this case, the proclamation of the dogma of Mary’s Immaculate...
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Remembering An Event in Stained Glass
This next armorial stained glass window in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp commemorates the consecration in 1873 of the Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes by Mgr. Deschamps. (The window itself is dated...
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Heraldry in the News!
Some of you may have seen this article already (I've seen it linked on at least two places on the internet that I frequent), but in case you haven't:There's a very nice little article by Harry Wallop...
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Heraldry: A Doorway into History
The next armorial stained glass window we're going to look at in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp is a lavish commemoration of a significant event in the city's history which was also a part of...
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I Tried. I Really Did.
Honestly. But, alas, I only have so many hours in a day, and only so long that I can spend trying to identify coats of arms in a single window in a single cathedral in Europe. A place which is filled...
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Well, I Certainly Erred on That One!
At least the first time, anyway.I guess that will teach me to take a cursory glance at a coat of arms and immediately decide I know what it is, without taking a closer look to be certain that I truly...
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The Founding of a Guild
The next armorial stained glass window in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium that we're going to look at memorializes the founding of the Guild of Our Lady’s Praise in 1478.This 1881 window...
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Guilds and More Guilds
The next window we're going to look at in our heraldic tour of the Cathedral of Our Lady is sometimes called "The Historic Window of the City of Antwerp." It is more properly called "Our Lady at the...
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Two Saints, a Martyr, and Six Coats of Arms
Well, technically, two martyrs, only one of whom is a saint. So, two saints, two martyrs, in three individuals.The three men, whose images are surmounted by the coats of arms of their respective...
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Well, This Is Frustrating
This next window is a bit frustrating, in part because there is no inscription giving the name(s) of the donor(s), and in part because, as one site noted, "[t]he way their respective blazons were...
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