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Copy of Stained Glass Window

Artist: Redpath, Anne, OBE ARA RSA LLD · 1895-1965

Copy of Stained Glass Window

The study was made during Redpath’s Travelling Scholarship from Edinburgh College of Art, which she was awarded in June 1919 and which took her to…

The study was made during Redpath’s Travelling Scholarship from Edinburgh College of Art, which she was awarded in June 1919 and which took her to Brussels, Bruges, Paris, Florence and Siena in the latter part of 1919.

The window depicted has been identified as a detail from the window of St. Timothy with the martyr’s palm, from the Chapelle Saint-Sébastien de l'église abbatiale Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Neuwiller-les-Saverne, Alsace, painted by an unknown glass painter from the Alsatian School, c.1160.

Interestingly Redpath has omitted the inscription identifying the subject which runs around the Saint’s halo, and has ignored the cames (Leadlines) of the original window, leaving only, and somewhat incongruously, the central horizontal restraining bar.

(for the original window vide; https://www.flickr.com/photos/29248605@N07/8698884298; and also; https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mus%C3%A9e+national+du+moyen+age+-+thermes+de+cluny+stained+glass&biw=1264&bih=883&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1ssPg4_zLAhXCSBQKHYgVDpAQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=j9Jz0vRVgIOJ1M%3A)

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