Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . front, with the mark of the nail inHis hand ; near Him is an armed figure of a Romanguard; on the right is Mary Magdalene baptisinga convert amid a waiting crowd. At the top is ayellow slab, with feet at the base, which is supposedto represent Mary Magdalene, whose golden hairhides all but her feet; this is being lifted by fourangels over a mountain below. The second window is of late fifteenth centurywith five figures under canopies. On the left is
Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France . front, with the mark of the nail inHis hand ; near Him is an armed figure of a Romanguard; on the right is Mary Magdalene baptisinga convert amid a waiting crowd. At the top is ayellow slab, with feet at the base, which is supposedto represent Mary Magdalene, whose golden hairhides all but her feet; this is being lifted by fourangels over a mountain below. The second window is of late fifteenth centurywith five figures under canopies. On the left is afemale saint (with an inserted title Sofjannes) in-troducing a donors wife and three daughters, oneof whom has a remarkable head-dress. In thesecond light is a saint in a cowl (looking like FriarTuck) introducing a kneeling donor and six canopies in the two lights have no shafts, sothat the pictures seem to have been inserted froma difierent window. The canopies in the next threelights have the same tops as those in the first twolights, but have shafts entwined with an these three lights is the Virgin Mother on the. MOULINS CATHEDRAL 211 left with arms crossed and long golden hair, lookinglike Mary Magdalene ; in the centre is a very finepicture of Christ crucified with His arms above Hishead, wearing the crown of thorns, and having verywooden-looking feet, against a brilliant backgroundof a ruby curtain damasked with angels; to theright is a figure of St John with clasped hands in aruby robe against a blue damasked curtain. In thetracery is the Last Judgment, of which the top ismissing, with the exception of two angels withtrumpets ; below these are three beautiful miniaturepictures; in the centre is St Michael the Archangelstanding between two angels; in each of the twocircles at the sides are six Apostles, and round thecircles are four angels with the instruments of thePassion. Below are two of the dead rising fromtheir tombs. The third window on th
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