This panel comes from a window at Rouen Cathedral portraying the death of John the Evangelist, who, “having been informed by Christ that the end of his life was near, took his final communion and, as he was consumed by a blinding light, voluntarily climbed into his tomb prepared to die” (Cothren 2019; see External Link).
Sources:
- Michael W. Cothren, “Seven Sleepers and Seven Kneelers: Three Thirteenth-Century Stained-Glass Panels from Rouen,” _Glencairn Museum News_, Number 3, 2019.
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