Below is an essay I wrote for my Art History class at Cambridge. I chose this beautiful stained glass for one of the two essays I wrote about medieval art.This remarkable 13th century French Gothic stained-glass lancet window from Soissons, France was installed in 1906 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. [Figure 1] It has been praised by Professor Madeline Caviness, a renowned European medieval stained-glass expert, as "the finest example of early thirteenth-century French stained glass in America." Still in excellent condition, this twelve-foot lancet window retains about 60% of its original glass. It exemplifies the earliest period of stained glass with its incredible mosaic technique. The window’s dominant blues and reds are complemented by greens, yellows, and purples, and the characteristic ironwork cohesively connects and separates each panel.
