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Gerardo Boto Varela
Universitat de Girona
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5904-5922
No 22 (2023), Subject: Daedalus' travels: artists and cultural exchanges, pages 1-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/quintana.22.9269
Submitted: 20-06-2023 Accepted: 20-06-2023 Published: 27-09-2023
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In 2019, as a result of the restoration of the Renaissance altarpiece by Antoni Coll installed in the Corpus Christi chapel, once dedicated to Saint Martin and Saint Francis, in the cathedral of Santa Maria de Girona, an exceptional stained-glass window was found. The painstaking restoration carried out in 2020 and 2021 has brought back light to some pieces of extraordinary value that had been obliterated by masking. This stained-glass window is the result of a reuse of early Gothic pieces combined with others from the first generation of International Gothic, presumably carried out around 1400. The earliest glass in this window, which can be dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, is therefore contemporary with the four early stained-glass windows in the monastery of Las Huelgas (Burgos). Both windows are the result of the establishment and organization of glassmakers' workshops from different French domains. The arrival of Aquitanian and Picardic craftsmen is superimposed on the pre-existence of glassmakers somewhere in Catalonia, around 1200 or a little earlier, if we accept the attribution to that territory of a stained-glass window conserved in the Worcester Art Museum.