This stained glass panel depicts the Genesis story, including the eating of the forbidden fruit and banishment from the Garden of…

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This panel shows a stag hunt using standard late medieval hunting methods with hounds.…

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This stained glass panel in the cathedral in Chartres, France, shows blacksmiths at work.…

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Stained glass panel showing stone carvers at work in Chartres, France, cathedral.…

This section of the York Minster Pilgrimage Window shows a funeral processional, but instead of people, the participants are apes. According to recent scholarship, the use of apes in the image was not considered profane, but rather emphasizes the…

This detail of the Great East Window in York Minister shows Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge (an orange tree -- not an apple tree) in the middle picture, followed by their banishment from the Garden of…

The Great East Window in York Minster, the largest stained glass window in the world. The window consists of 144 main panels and 167 tracery panels. It was completed around 1408. It depicts the beginning and end of the world through scenes from the…