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Stained Glass Panel with the Visitation

1444
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 306
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: 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
  • Object Number: 13.64.3a, b
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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