World-famous Gouda windows and the original working drawings on view in Gouda

GOUDA.- The finest working drawings of glass-painter Dirck Crabeth have now been brought together in museumgoudA. He designed and painted the most beautiful windows in the Sint-Janskerk, including the famous King’s Window. The exhibition sheds light on the consummate skill of this master artist. It also examines the historical, artistic, and technical aspects of both the working drawings and the stained-glass windows, as well as the stages leading from the drawings to the final windows. To begin with, the scenes were drawn on paper, first on a small scale and then full-size. The full-size drawings, made in chalk or ink, on long strips of paper, combine to form enormous window designs ranging from 5 to 22 metres in height. This makes them the largest drawings in the world. It also makes it impossible to display the full length of the drawings inside a museum. The present exhibition includes parts of twelve windows

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