Design for Great Teachers of the Fifth to Eighth Centuries 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. 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

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Work type

Study (visual work)

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paper (fiber product)

paint

Keywords

Teachers

Religious art

Stained glass (visual works)

Bible--Quotations

Iconography