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The Jewish community had been forbidden to bury their dead and Tobit was in breach of the law in doing this.\r\n\r\nThe panel illustrates one of the new techniques for decorating glass that were introduced in the mid 16th century. Glass painters used paints known as 'enamels' to paint directly onto the glass, similar to painting onto a canvas. The colours were produced by adding metallic oxides to a ground glass (frit) mixture. The resulting wide colour range included the delicate pinks, yellows, greens, reds and purples shown here.\r\n\r\nThe panels were painted by Lorenz Lingg, a pupil of the stained glass master Christoph Murer. Murer had created a series of drawings illustrating the Book of Tobit. Lingg made his own copies of these drawings and then produced this set of painted glass panels from them.\r\n\r\nThe inscription at the bottom of the panel refers to a man who was a member of a civic court. The date in the inscription most likely refers to the date of his membership. These ten panels were commissioned by a group of court officials, probably to commemorate a special event. It is known that Ling was working in Strasbourg and it is quite likely that these panels were originally displayed in a courtroom in Strasbourg itself or in the neighbouring Alsace region.","physicalDescription":"Panel of painted glass. Above the inscription is the text:\r\nTobias is Gastfreij ohn Seher...und auss Mittleij deutlichem h...Begrabt Er ein Todten als...und furcht Gott mer als mesche gw.... Below is a shield with an inscription:\r\nH.Billg Hoffman zum Schoffel erwelt . 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Although technically brilliant, they seem to be a bit less skilfull and elaborate than the panels done by Murer. But they show grea similarities to stained glass paintings attributed to Lorenz Ling. The V&A stained glass panels correspond to a series of designs in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe...drawn 1606 by Lorenz Ling. These designs are copies after Murer which survived... (correspondance in CER department Object Information file).","briefDescription":"Panel of clear and coloured glass painted with enamels and silver stain. Depicting an event from the Book of Tobit (Tobit burying the dead). 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