This fresco by Fra Angelico in cell 1 of the San Marco Monastery illustrates the encounter between Mary Magdalen and Christ after the ressurection.
The stained glass windows in this section are all from the chancel and choir clerestory of Saint Gatien's Cathedral in Tours. They all date from the between 1250 and 1300 and are contemporary with the rebuilding of the chancel between 1236-1279. The windows in the apse are the earlier and date between 1250-1260, whilst those in the clerestory were installed in the last part of the 13th century.
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Sep
2009
Townshend, Caroline
Submitted by walwyn
Caroline Charlotte Townshend (1878-1944) was the daughter of the Suffragette Emily Townshend. She created the Fabian window from a design by George Bernard Shaw in 1910. After the first world war she set up home with her partner Joan Howson.
Memorial to English Metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne (1637-74) by Tom Denny, Audley Chapel, Hereford Cathederal.
This fresco by Fra Angelico depicts the Transfiguration of Christ, one of the most radiant and spiritually charged scenes in the Gospel narrative. At the center, Christ stands upon a rocky elevation, enveloped in a great mandorla of divine light, his white garments gleaming with celestial brilliance.
Made in 1895 by Burlison & Grylls this Transfiguration scene was give to St Etheldreda and St Wilfred church, Guilsborough by Lady Cicely Clifton. Time has not been kind to this window with a number of the faces and clothing fading.
This window by Hardman (1892) is Christ in Glory with the prophets Moses and Elijah to the left and right.
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Sep
2012
Treaty of Paris 1259
Submitted by walwynThu, 12/04/1259
The Treaty of Paris is a major diplomatic milestone in medieval Anglo-French relations, marking the end (for a while) of centuries of conflict over lands that English kings held in France. Since the Norman Conquest of 1066, the kings of England were also dukes of Normandy, as such they held lands in France and owed feudal allegiance to the French king.
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This Tree of Jesse window by Kempe and Tower in the Lady Chapel at Higham Ferrers. It is undated but is judging by the company logo of a black tower superimposed on the wheatsheaf, it is must be after Kempe's death in 1907.
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