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NYC – Fort Tryon Park: The Cloisters – Stained Glass windows


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Theodosius Arrives at Ephesus, from a Window with Scenes from the Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus
Pot-metal glass and vitrous paint
France, Normany, Rouen, about 1200-1210
Probably from a nave window of the cathedral of Nore-Dame

The legend tells of seven brothers condemned to death because of their Christian faith. They took refuge in a cave, where they fell into a sleep that lasted many years. Eventually, the cave was opened, the brothers awakened, and the miracle was recognized by the local bishop. In this panel, one of eleven from the lost window, the Christian emperor Theodosius rides to Ephesus to see the brothers.

The Cloisters Collection, 1980 (1980.263.4)

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Three Innocent Soldiers Condemned to Death and Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul, from a Window with Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas
Pot-metal glass and vitrous paint
France, Picardi, Soissons, about 1200-120
From the cathedral of Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais, probably the ambulatory

Saint Nicholas was bishop of Myra in Asia Minor and one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages. On the left stand two soldiers and a barely visible third who have been wrongfully condemned to death by a corrupt Roman consul. On the right Nicholas, actually far away, appears in a dream and demands freedom for the soldiers.

The Cloisters Collection, Gift of the Glencairn Foundation, 1980 (1980.263.2,.3)

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The Cloisters, a branch of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages, is located in Fort Tryon Park near the northern tip of Manhattan island on a hill overlooking the Hudson River. The Cloisters collection contains approximately five thousand European medieval works of art, with a particular emphasis on pieces dating from the twelfth through the fifteen centuries.

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