medieval imaginations: literature & visual culture in the middle ages

picture data:

medium:	stained glass
date:	15th century
episodes:	All
owner/location:	Rector and Wardens, East Harling, Norfolk
catalogue information:	Holy Cross College: Kempe Project:stained glass
related images:	511

Death, Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary

Image 524 In this 1480 stained glass panel (East Harling, Norfolk: East window, E3), the Virgin Mary stands in a mandorla, surrounded by a glory of rays and adored by five angels with spreading wings. A golden crown hovers over Mary's head as she is taken up into heaven. Woodforde 1950, p.49 (see also Image 511)

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further reading:
Woodforde, C., The Norwich School of Glass Painting in the Fifteenth Century, London 1950