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GLASS PAINTING (MV 4491: 3)

Type: Glass painting (king's head).

Use: Decoration.

Site: Raisio church

Period: Central Middle Ages.

Dating: 14th century A.D.

Photographer: P. O. Welin.

The glass paintings depicting apostle Simon, an unknown king's head and sprigs are the oldest ones left in Finland. Probably they have been imported from Lübeck, the greatest trading city in the Baltic Sea area. The scholar C. A. Nordman has dated them back to the 1340s.

Sources:

• Nordman 1961: 22-28.

Other pictures:

• MV 4419: 1 (St. Martin)
• MV 4419: 2 (apostle Simon)
• MV 4419: 4 (monogram).
• MV 4419: 5 (sprigs).

Other related topics:

• Christian artefacts
• Church of Raisio.

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