VISUAL THEOLOGY

Stained Glass Panel with the Entombment, 15th century, Germany, Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain Overall, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) ■ These panels were part of a window depicting the ancestry of Christ in the form of a Tree of Jesse (a complete example is shown opposite). The painter of these windows adopted an angular style of drapery folds and subtle color juxtapositions initiating a new style of glass painting in the Middle Rhine ■