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The wife's panel includes her coat of arms, which show that she was related to the Louvain families of Pinnock and Absoloens. Both these families had contributed financially to the Charterhouse in Louvain.\r\n\r\nThe Charterhouse in Louvain, a monastery of the Carthusian Order, was founded at the end of the 15th century by the Dukes of Burgundy. Records indicate that the glazing in the church and cloister was carried out from about 1500 by Hendrik van Diependale of Louvain. He died in 1509 and his son Jan carried on the work. \r\n\r\nA 19th-century drawing of the cloister windows indicates that there were 80 windows of two lights each, surmounted by a single quatrefoil-shaped panel. Each window seems to have been composed of prophet panels surmounting narrative ones. \r\n\r\nThe theme of the cloister glazing centred on the Fall and Redemption of humankind through the life and death of Christ. New Testament scenes would have been paired with the Old Testament ones that prefigured them. Prophets announcing these events would have been included in the upper portions of the windows.\r\n\r\nPanels depicting saints and donors would have accompanied these scenes, probably in the lowest registers of the windows. The donor depicted in this panel kneels before a statue of St Mary Magdalene, who was the patron saint of the monastery.","physicalDescription":"Panel. 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The wife's panel includes her coat of arms which show that she was related to the Louvain families Pinnock and Absoloens. Both of these families had contributed financially to the Charterhouse in Louvain.\r\n\r\nThe Charterhouse in Louvain was a monastery of the Carthusian Order founded at the end of the 15th century by the Dukes of Burgundy. It was financed with donations from the ducal family members as well as from clerics and residents of the surrounding areas.\r\n\r\nRecords indicate that the glazing in the Charterhouse and its cloister was carried out from about 1500 by the glazier Hendrik van Diependale of Louvain. He died in 1509 and his son Jan carried on the work. \r\n\r\nA 19th century drawing of the cloister windows indicates that there were 80 windows of two lights each, surmounted by a single quatrefoil-shaped panel. The composition of each window seems to be three prophet panels surmounting four narrative panels. If this is correct, then there would originally have been 210 prophet panels and 320 narrative panels in the cloister glazing.\r\n\r\nThe theme of the cloister glazing centred on the Fall and Redemption of Mankind through the life and death of Christ. There would have been scenes from the New Testament paired with their Old Testament prefigurements. Prophets announcing these events would have been included in the upper portions of the windows.\r\n\r\nPanels depicting saints and donors would have accompanied these scenes, probably occupying the lowest registers of the windows. The donor depicted in this panel kneels before a statue of St. Mary Magdalene. She was the patron saint of the monastery.","briefDescription":"Panel of clear and coloured glass with painted details and yellow (silver) stain depicting a male donor kneeling before an image of St. Mary Magdalene. Made in the Netherlands in Louvain, about 1505-10.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Rackham, Bernard. <i>A Guide to the Collections of Stained Glass</i>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1936, p. 105, pl. 40."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Vroom, N.R.A. 'Een onbekende ontwerpteekening voor een gebrandschilderd glas in de St. Lieven Monsterkerk te Zierikzee', <i>Oud Holland</i> 59 (1942): 171-178, here 174-75."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wayment, Hilary. 'The Master of the Mass of Saint Gregory Roundel: A Dutch Glass-pianter in Brabant during the 1520s', <i>Oud Holland</i> 103 (1989): 61-96."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Williamson, Paul. <i>Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>. London: V&A Publications, 2003, pp. 88, 147, cat. no 68."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Falque, Ingrid. 'The Stained Glass Windows of the Great Cloister of Leuven Charterhouse: Between <i>Memoria</i> and Spiritual Edification?', in <i>Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400-1700). Festschrift for Walter S. Melion</i>, ed. Stijn P.M. Bussels, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Michel Weemans, and Elliott D. Wise, Leiden/Boston: Brill 2024, pp. 116-39, here pp. 123-25."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Williamson, Paul. 'The Triumph of Earsham', in <i>A Cornucopia for a Polymath: Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and Art History for John Burnett Mitchell</i>, ed. 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Although the couple has not so far been identified, the wife's coat of arms includes variants of the arms of Pinnock and Absoloens, well-known families of Louvain and donors of two cells at the Charterhouse.  Mary Magdalene was the patron saint of the Charterhouse.\r\n\r\nNetherlands (Louvain), about 1505-10; attributed to Hendrik or Jan van Diependale\r\nMuseum no. 6914-1860","date":{"text":"(PW) 2003","earliest":"2003-01-01","latest":"2003-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["6914-1860"],"accessionNumberNum":"6914","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1860,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2020ML9938"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-10","recordCreationDate":"1998-08-04","availableToBook":false}}