Transforming The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College
l i g ht VIRGINIA CHIEFFO RAGUIN GARY WAYNE GILBERT
Contents the campus architecture: an introduction
JeVery Howe one
A Literature of Stone
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The Collegiate Gothic Architecture of Boston College the buildings and windows
Virginia Chieffo Raguin two
Labor of Light
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Stained Glass as an Art Form: A History of Technology and Style three
The Known Universe
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Earl Edward Sanborn Windows, Bapst and Burns Libraries four
Veneration
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Alexander Locke Windows, St. Mary’s Chapel five
The Triumph of Good
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Richard King Windows, Roche Room, Bapst Library six
In Tara’s Court
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Thomas Murphy Window, Irish Hall, Gasson Hall the photographs
Gary Wayne Gilbert seven
The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College A Selection
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baps t li brary
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burns li brary
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s t. mary’s chapel
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gas s on hall
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acknowledgments
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selected bibliography
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illustration credits
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index
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Gargan Hall, East Wall ph i l osoph y a l cov e
t h i s page top PHILOSOPHY WINDOW
t h i s page bottom left M E TA P H Y S I C S
Metaphysics is represented by Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), who built his massive exploration of Catholic theology, the Summa Theologiae, on Aristotle’s philosophical precepts.
t h i s page bottom right DUNS SCOTUS
(c. 1266–1308) Scottish philosopher and Scholastic theologian.
opp o s i t e page LOGIC
Aristotle, shown teaching at the Lyceum in Athens, represents logic.
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Ford Tower
j esu i t m issiona r i e s of t h e a m e r ic as
t h i s page top PIERRE-JEAN DE SMET
(1801–1873) A Belgian missionary in the PaciWc Northwest, Father de Smet is shown preaching to the Sioux.
t h i s page bottom left J O S É D E A N C H I E TA
A Portuguese missionary to Brazil, Father Anchieta (1534–1597) was also a poet, dramatist, and scholar. He is celebrated as a founder of the national literature of Brazil.
t h i s page bottom right J ESUIT MISSIO NS IN NE W SPAIN, 1638
Father Castano, baptizing Opata Indians in Mexico.
opp o s i t e page FORD TOWER
North wall
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Thompson Room t h e cl assic s
t h i s page top BEOWULF
In the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf confronts Grendel, the monster that routinely raids the great hall of Heorot. Beowulf tears oV Grendel’s arm, and Grendel, mortally wounded, returns to his cave in the marshes to die.
t h i s page bottom EPIC POETRY WINDOW
opp o s i t e page T H E D I V I N E C O M E D Y left panel
At the end of his journey through purgatory, Dante sees his inspiration, Beatrice, “her mantle green on hue of living Xame that was her gown” (Purgatorio, Canto 30:32–33).
opp o s i t e page T H E D I V I N E C O M E D Y right panel
Dante then sees St. Bernard, the great Cistercian monk, who asks the Virgin to help Dante see the vision of God: “Virgin Mother, Daughter of your Son / Lowly yet exalted more than any being, / Eternal Wisdom’s purpose, Wxed and won. . . . scatter ever clouding air / from his mortality through your own pleas / so that the supreme joy he yet may bear” (Paradiso, Canto 33:1–4, 31–35).
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Irish Hall
st. pat r ick a n d k i ng l aogh a i r e at ta r a
t h i s page top S T. P A T R I C K A N D K I N G L A O G H A I R E A T TA R A
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t h i s page bottom left S T. P A T R I C K A N D K I N G L A O G H A I R E A T TA R A
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t h i s page bottom right GASSON HALL
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opp o s i t e page S T. P A T R I C K A N D K I N G L A O G H A I R E A T TA R A
The Catholic missionary bishop, St. Patrick, is shown meeting with the pagan king of Ireland, Laoghaire, at Tara on Easter Sunday 433. According to legend, the king granted Patrick the right to preach throughout the kingdom, marking the beginning of the Christianization of Ireland. The meticulous execution of the window is apparent in the intricately designed robes worn by the central figures.
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Transforming The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College
li g ht VIRGINIA CHIEFFO RAGUIN GARY WAYNE GILBERT
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