Design for Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century Characters Window

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Creator(s)

artist: Charles J. Connick (American, 1875-1945)

Time period

creation date: 1938

Location

Installation location: window based on design in Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)

Cultural context

American

Description

Painted design for stained glass window, Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh. DIMENSIONS: 87.38 x 25.4 cm (34.4 x 10 inches). INSCRIPTIONS: [Top Central Panel:] The Mirror of Nature // [Left Panel, top to bottom:] His Law for the constant rule of my obedience / Calvin / Whitefield / [4 words in upside down in open book:] Freedom of The Will / Jonathan Ewards / The Great Awakening / Cotton Mather / Thomas Hooker / Survey of the Sum[el?] of Church Discipline / Divine Law / Civic Law / John Huss / Spangenberg / Count Zinzenndorf / Fratrum Unitas / THOU MADEST HIM TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF THY HANDS. // [Right Panel, top to bottom:] A Day is a Miniature Eternity / Whiteman / Thoreau / [3 words upside down on page or scroll:] Lectures Essays Poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson / Days / Endicott / Holliman / Roger Williams / The Bloudy Tenant / Truth / Peace / Joseph Butler / S. Philip Neri / Cardinal Newman / Idea of a University / THOU HAS PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET PSALM 8:6. // ARTIST'S LABELS: [above top of painting:] Southeast / Window No. 13 [below bottom of painting:] Seventeenth to nineteenth century characters. Heinz Memorial Chapel. Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Work type

Study (visual work)

Medium

paper (fiber product)

paint

Keywords

Religious art

Stained glass (visual works)

Bible--Quotations

Iconography

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