The Seventh Window: The King's Window Donated by Philip II and Mary Tudor to Sint Janskerk in Gouda, 1557.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 2006| | Copyright

Wim de Groot, ed. The Seventh Window: The King's Window Donated by Philip II and Mary Tudor to Sint Janskerk in Gouda (1557).

With CD-ROM. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2005. 304 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. [euro]40. ISBN: 90-6550-822-8.

Stained glass, though usually excluded from the canon of Renaissance art, was a significant area of endeavor in the Netherlands as in France. Large church windows powerfully conveyed the status of patrons in a way that few pictures on panel or canvas could match. These extensive fields of painted glass ...

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