Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Septeber 2010

Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

Date: 1444

Geography: Made in, Germany

Culture: German

Medium: Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain, olive-green enamel

Dimensions: Overall (with 1 T-bar): 43 3/8 x 29 1/8 x 3/8 in. (110.2 x 74 x 1 cm) a: 22 1/16 x 29 1/4 x 3/8 in. (56 x 74.3 x 1 cm) b: 21 7/16 x 29 1/16 x 3/8 in. (54.5 x 73.8 x 1 cm)

Classification: Glass-Stained

Credit Line: Francis L. Leland Fund, 1913

Accession Number: 13.64.3a, b

Description:

This panel was part of a window depicting the ancestry of Christ in the form of a Tree of Jesse. The painter of this window, adopting an angular style of drapery folds and subtle color juxtapositions, initiated a new style of glass painting in the Middle Rhine.


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