Stained glass window, detail, with grisaille decoration and fermaillet or bosse of a man sticking out his tongue, 13th century, in the Chapelle de la Vierge, or Chapel of the Virgin, in the Basilique Saint-Urbain de Troyes, or Basilica of Saint Urban of Troyes, a 13th century Gothic church in Troyes, Aube, France. The windows were restored in 1879. The basilica was founded in 1262 under Pope Urban IV and consecrated in 1382, although the building was not completed until the 20th century. It is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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