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

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 represented stories from the Bible and events from local history, newly interpreting the actions and ...

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