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GLASS PAINTING (MV 4419: 1)
Type: Glass painting (St. Martin).
Use: Decoration.
Site: Raisio church
Period: Late Middle Ages.
Dating: 15th century A.D.
Size: 98 mm × 90 mm × 84 mm.
Photographer: -
St. Martin (Martinus) lived in the 4th century A.D. In his youth he was a soldier, later the bishop of Tourns in Gaul, i.e., France.
This painting represents a famous legend about St. Martin according to which he cut his robes into two halves with his sword and gave the other half to a naked mendicant. St. Martin is depicted as a dressed-up nobleman.
The glass painting is probably of foreign origin. The scholar C. A. Nordman has dated it back to the middle of the 15th century. In Raisio church there is also a wooden sculpture of St. Martin. He may have been the patron saint of the church.
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