Design for Great Teachers of the Fifth to Eighth Centuries Window
Connick, Charles J.

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CONPI_0024
Date
1938Description
Painted design for stained glass window, Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh. INSCRIPTIONS: [Top Central Panel:] The Mirror of History / OT * NT // [Left Panel, top to bottom:] Caelbert [6 words on back of book:] SAINTS OF THE CHURCH OF YORK / Charlemagne / Alcuin / Romulus Augustulus / Odoacer / Cassiodorus / Laudable is the Industry Which Preaches to Men With the hand / Theodoric / Symmachus / Boethius/ Consolation of philosophy / ALL THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SHALL PRAISE THEE [...continues at bottom of right panel] // [Right Panel, top to bottom:] S. Benet Biscop / [ 2 words on cover of a book:] Ecclesiastical History / S. Cuthbert / Venerable Bede / King Osway / S. Elflida / Sing the Beginning of Created Things / S. Benignus / S. Bidget / St. Patrick / Breastplate of S. Patrick / [...continued from bottom of left panel] O LORD WHEN THEY HEAR THE WORDS OF THY MOUTH PSALM 138:4 // ARTIST'S LABEL:[above top of painting:] Window No. 11 / Southeast [below bottom of painting:] Great teachers of the fifth to eighth centuries, South East clerestory window. / Heinz Memorial Chapel. Pittsburgh. / SHADED BY TRANSEPT full view
Type of Work
Study (visual work)Subject
Teachers, Religious art, Stained glass (visual works), Bible--Quotations, Iconography
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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License: CC BY-NC2
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