Document
Metadata
Date
August 29, 2025
Title
Detail of the Flight into Egypt Stained Glass Transom Panel, Mary, Mother of Priests Chapel
Photographer
Mara Robb
Creation Date
August 25, 2025
Description
A close-up horizontal photograph providing a focused view of the individual stained glass transom panel depicting the Flight into Egypt.
The image features:
* Narrative Iconography: St. Joseph in a light blue tunic and gold halo walks forward holding a staff and traveling bag, leading a dark blue donkey. Mary, cradling the tightly wrapped Infant Jesus, rides upon the donkey clad in light green robes and a golden veil.
* Exotic Landscape Motifs: The scene is set against a rich terracotta-orange ground line beneath a turquoise and cobalt blue sky. The background features distant pyramids and stylized palm trees with green fronds and segmented brown trunks.
* Technical Line-Work & Color Palette: Demonstrates fine black glass enamel painting used to detail facial features, halos, foliage veins, and animal contours across vivid, high-contrast colored glass pieces.
* Architectural Framing: Framed securely within a rectangular leaded transom channel, mounted flush between the plaster header above and the interior wall ledge below.
Rights
In Copyright

