4038 x 7799 px | 34,2 x 66 cm | 13,5 x 26 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
16 mars 2024
Lieu:
All Saints North Street church, York, England
Informations supplémentaires:
This was given by the Blackburn family, who appear kneeling at the bottom—Nicholas snr is on the right with his wife Margaret, and their son Nicholas jnr on the left with his wife Margaret. The MAIN FIGURES under their exuberant canopies: The MAIN FIGURES under their exuberant canopies: LEFT LIGHT: St. John the Baptist. He wears the rough garb of a prophet, and carries the lamb which is his symbol, from the occasion when, according to St. John’s gospel, he pointed out Jesus with the words ‘Behold the Lamb of God’. CENTRE LIGHT: St. Anne. She is teaching her daughter, the Virgin Mary, to read and to pray: the words are the beginning of Psalm 142 (143), ‘Domine exaudi orationem meam auribus percipe obsecrationem meam’, ‘Hear my prayer O Lord; give ear to my supplication’. This representation of the Virgin as a child is incidental - its function is to indicate that the main figure is St. Anne - but it is one of the finest images of Our Lady to have survived from the whole of medieval England. That it is in such a fragile medium as glass makes its survival all the more remarkable. RIGHT LIGHT: St. Christopher. He carries the child Jesus on his shoulders through water. Fish swim between his feet.
