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Shame, it's one of the more striking moments in the PhD.
Although the Lady Chapel glass is fragmentary - much is from the Chapter
House - Ayres thinks the heavily restored east window (and the
remarkable head-filled tops of the windows north and south of it) is
iconographically pretty reliable, as is the only slightly less restored
east window of the choir itself.
Both work up something of a lather over their interrelate series of
type-anti-type themes - physical ancestors of Christ in the choir (Jesse
Tree), spiritual ones in the Lady Chapel; both are thick with ideas
Marian.
I know Tim feels that the canons of Wells worked some unusually clever,
even profound, twists into these familiar themes, and the delicate
matters corporeal and spiritual that they raise. We've lost too much
Lady Chapel glass to be able to be sure, but it certainly seems to me
he's onto something.
Jon
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Jon Cannon wrote:
>
> .. and Tim Ayres, in his PhD thesis on the stained glass of Wells
> cathedral (and I presume in the published CVMA volume too) reminds us
> that the entire Marian cycle of images and ideas in the Lady Chapel
> and elsewhere, focusing on these (to a modern secular person by turns
> bewildering and poetic) ideas about corporeal and spiritual
> conceptions and births, is (when such quotes are borne in mind) given
> an added dimension by being rendered in glass...
I can't find that precise discussion in the published volume. The
extremely
fragmentary nature of the surviving glazing the Lady Chapel doesn't
help,
but there doesn't seem (surprisingly) to have been an Annunciation in
the
main East window. The emphasis seems to have been on type/antitype
figures
rather than narrative.
John Briggs
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