Abstract

In 1925, the Religious of the Sacred Heart transferred their Boston school for girls to the former Tudor-Revival style estate of Loren D. Towle in Newton, Massachusetts [Fig.1]. The Boston architectural firm of Maginnis & Walsh (founded in 1898 as Maginnis, Walsh, & Sullivan) built the chapel and a four-story school wing between 1926 and 1928. Irish artists associated with the An Tur Gloine (Tower of Glass) Dublin collective produced the eight window program installed in 1929. The chapel’s im...

Highlights

  • An Túr Gloine (Tower of Glass) at the Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart

  • Irish artists associated with the An Túr Gloine (Tower of Glass) Dublin collective produced the eight window program installed in 1929

  • The Middle Ages is represented by Catherine of Siena, theologian and activist who worked to bring the papacy back to Rome from its exile in France

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Summary

Virginia Raguin

The windows, in addition to their association with the context of Arts and Crafts contemporary expression, employ conventions from Italian panel painting, manuscript illumination, metalwork, and medieval stained glass When considering how such works came to have such association with the long history of the production of narrative in religious art, it has been most fruitful to review the context surrounding the founding of An Túr Gloine. Her campaigns to reform her Order faced opposition but she was successful and founded the convent of Discalced Carmelite Nuns of the Primitive Rule of Saint Joseph at Avila in 1562 Her influence extended to religious and secular leaders of her time through numerous writings, including The Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection, and her widely read autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus. The large, curved wings of the angels sweep around the images to frame them, creating natural and cohesive intersections between medallions

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