Austin replacement panel

Window: nIII (Miracle Window: Pilgrimage and Healing)
Panel: 4
Observers have frequently mistaken the panel at the very bottom of nIII as original. In fact, it is another Austin replacement. The medieval panel he copied is WINDOW/PANEL REF AND LINK HERE. Notice how, among other alterations, he changed the recovered man’s head. Instead of a bearded layman, he pictured a tonsured monk, no doubt with the idea of making this panel look like it was a part of the ill monk Hugh’s story.

Austin imitated a thirteenth-century style style when he painted facial features and other details on the glass. He reduced the translucency of the brand-new glass he used to make the panels by putting gritty washes of paint over it, and utilized other techniques to make the new panels look as if they had been slowly corroding over centuries. His ability to give his replacements an “old” look is quite impressive.

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Panel details

  • CVMA identificationnIII.4
  • Original workshop/artistAustin Jr, Canterbury
  • Creation date1857-1860s

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