Built in the reign of King William II of Sicily, between 1153-1189, the cathedral of Monreale is one of the last great architectural works of the Norman kings of Sicily.
Created in 1619 this late Death and Assumption of the Virgin stained glass window is in Bourges Cathedral France.
In fifteenth-century Florence, the image of the Virgin and Child underwent a quiet revolution. From the solemn, hieratic figures of late Gothic piety, the Madonna became an image of tender humanity, no longer distant and majestic, but immediate, emotional, and profoundly relatable. This transformation mirrors a broader shift in Renaissance devotion: the movement of sacred experience from church to home, from the grandeur of the altar to the intimacy of domestic life.
This medieval window in the chancel of Tewkesbury dates from 1338. The main panels depicts the Last Judgement, and the Coronation of the Virgin is the subject of the rose window.
Attributed to Buonamico Buffalmacco this depiction of the Last Judgement, in the Camposanto of Pisa, was created between 1345-1340.
Pierre Carron’s Millennium Windows at Orléans Cathedral stand as luminous meditations on creation, light, and faith renewed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Set within the soaring Gothic tracery of the cathedral, they bridge centuries of sacred art by merging medieval structure with a modern painter’s vision.
The Prato pulpit was commissioned by the Operai del Duomo di Prato for the exterior corner of the cathedral, specifically to display the Sacra Cintola (Holy Belt of the Virgin Mary), Prato’s most treasured relic.
The story of how three kings out hunting meet their dead ancestors.
Thomas Andrewes shown in armour and bare headed, whilst his wife Agnes wears a huge head-dress and the long hanging sleeves fashionable at the time.
