![]() ![]() The one unfinished window on the south wall of Annenberg Hall will be completed in memory of Roger Annenberg, ’62.Īll Materials taken from The Stained Glass Windows in Memorial Hall, Harvard University by Mason Hammond. Other highlights include two windows by Sarah Wyman Whitman and three windows executed by Tiffany Studios. La Farge executed four windows for Memorial Hall. Approximately half of the windows illustrate Civil War-related themes while the others depict cultural, literary and historic subjects. The Battle Window is a gift of the class of 1860 which lost twelve classmates, including Robert Gould Shaw, to the Civil War. The most apparent deviation from the Corporation’s original guidelines is in John La Farge’s Battle Window which depicts a continuous scene rather than one figure per lancet. For example “typical and historical” was expanded to include allegorical figures such as Honor and Peace. These guidelines were loosened over time. The choice of design is also restricted to characters prior to the time of Shakespeare, it being the intention that the windows, when all complete, shall unite harmoniously into one great theme. The Harvard Corporation’s original guidelines for the windows required that:Įach window shall contain one or more upright figures, about the size of life, with an ornamental panel or inscription occupying the ventilator panel below, all with a boarder or canopy and that these figures shall be typical or historical. ![]() Installed between 18, the majority of windows were commissioned and funded by various alumni classes. ![]() Artistic styles range from the traditional European techniques employed by the British designers of the earlier windows to the innovative use of new glass forms which are hallmarks of the American or Opalescent Style first developed by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany. Because they represent such a variety of designers, manufacturers and techniques, the collection of stained glass in Memorial Hall comprises a veritable museum of American stained glass. ![]()
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