Glorious glass at StJohn's Church, Gouda . Here the visitor finds the windows numbered58 to 64. They are from the old regular mona-stery of Gouda. Originally these Augustine monkshad their monastery in the land of Stein, anhours distance outside Gouda, where Erasmuslived from about 1487 till about 1492. When themonastery at Stein was burned down in 1549,they moved into the walled town of Gouda,(1551). Shortly afterwards, between 1556 and1559, the seven windows were given to thechurch. In 1580, after the Reformation, themonastery reverted to the town of Gouda,which caused the monastery church t
Glorious glass at StJohn's Church, Gouda . Here the visitor finds the windows numbered58 to 64. They are from the old regular mona-stery of Gouda. Originally these Augustine monkshad their monastery in the land of Stein, anhours distance outside Gouda, where Erasmuslived from about 1487 till about 1492. When themonastery at Stein was burned down in 1549,they moved into the walled town of Gouda,(1551). Shortly afterwards, between 1556 and1559, the seven windows were given to thechurch. In 1580, after the Reformation, themonastery reverted to the town of Gouda,which caused the monastery church to be pulleddown, the windows being removed to the win-dows 20 and 21 of St. Johns church. They werevery crowded, however. About 1934 they wereremoved to the chapel, where they appear tofull advantage. It is not surprising to find traces here of the princeof humanists, who often was in England, wherehe visited Thomas More and others. Erasmus spentthe greater part of his boyhood in and roundGouda. His portrait is reproduced here after Hoi-. Fig. 4. Erasmus, after Hans Holbein, with vaults underGouda townhall as background - Drawing W. Hogervorst. bein, with the vaults under the Gouda townhallin the background (fig. 4). Besides, the windows are witnesses of the sametype of Biblical humanism which Erasmus champ-ioned in his writings some ten years earlier. It is not known who made the windows of thischapel; their art is related to that of DirckCrabeth. In this case the donors are not princes,but a former burgomaster, a steward, not thebishop himself, but a suffragan, a prebendary, we give the numbers, with the subjects,which are all related to the last events in the lifeof Jesus. 58. THE CAPTURE OF CHRIST. 59. THE MOCKERY OF CHRIST. 60. ECCE HOMO. 61. THE BEARING OF THE CROSS. 62. THE RESURRECTION. 63. THE ASCENSION. 64. PENTECOST. South side of the choir. After leaving the chapel, where the visitor hasbeen able to examine the stained glass windowsso closely, the tour is
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