Six Scenes from a Tree of Jesse Window

1290-1300
Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint
Swabia br> Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22.25a-f, Purchase: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1922

This Jesse tree de-emphasizes the royal ancestors between David and Jesus, putting them in smaller circles so as to emphasize Jesse, David, and four New Testament episodes (the Presentation, Last Supper, Crucifixion, and Ascension).

Read more about images of Jesse and David.
Read more about images of The Presentation in the Temple, The Last Supper, The Crucifixion, and The Ascension.

Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.