Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Jacob's Dream [Panel for Metz Cathedral window]

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Jacob's Dream [Panel for Metz Cathedral window]
Image View: 
Detail, God speaks to Jacob in his dream
Creator: 
Marc Chagall (Belorussian artist, 1887-1985)
Location: 
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note: 
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest; Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017)
GPS: 
+45.4987-73.5801
Date: 
ca. 1960 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
stained glass (visual work)
Classification: 
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material: 
colored glass; lead caming; vitreous paint
Technique: 
painting and painting techniques; stained glass
Subjects: 
contemporary (1960 to present); cycles or series; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Angels; Bible; Jacob (Biblical patriarch); folkloric; dreamlike; dreams
Description: 
During his last 30 years Chagall mastered stained glass, for which he adapted ancient techniques of hand-painting on the glass before firing, and with which he depicted both religious and secular subjects. He provided windows at the cathedral of Metz (first window, 1960); this is one panel of the Metz windows (in the ambulatory). The intensities of color that he achieved with the technical support of the stained-glass artist Charles Marq enriched his work in other media. The theme is Jacob's dream of a ladder with angels ascending and descending. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-CHAGALL-SG-JD-A04
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.