Highways and Byways in Cambridge and ElyConybeare, John William Edward
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Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely
Conybeare, John William Edward
Cambridgeshire (England) -- Description and travel; Isle of Ely (England) -- Description and travel
TYPE | TYPE
The Circumcision of Isaac. | The visit of the Queen of Sheba
| to Solomon.
|
ANTITYPE | ANTITYPE
The Circumcision of Christ. | The visit of the Wise Men to
| Christ.
The face of Abraham and that of the officiating priest below are both
good, and so is that of the Queen. The Epiphany Star is a fine object,
and the effect of its light irradiating the thatch of the manger-shed
is most powerfully rendered.
* * * * *
The fifth window gives us
TYPE | TYPE
The Legal Purification of a woman. | Jacob's flight from the
| vengeance of Esau.
|
ANTITYPE | ANTITYPE
The Purification of Mary. | The Flight into Egypt.
In the Purification scene the faces of Simeon, who is the main figure,
Mary, and Joseph (carrying the dove-cage), are all worth looking at.
So is Joseph in the Flight episode; which, however, is chiefly
remarkable for introducing in the back-ground a legend from a late
carol, which tells how Herod's soldiers pursued the Holy Family, and
how the pursuit was miraculously checked. The fugitives met a
husbandman, and instructed him to answer any inquiry for them by
saying, "They passed whilst I was sowing this corn"; which was
actually the case. But, lo! when the pursuers shortly came up the corn
had sprung up, and was ripe already to harvest. It takes some little
trouble to decipher this scene. The Purification is seen through an
arcade of the Temple, on the frieze of which is a group of classical
horsemen like those of the Parthenon.
* * * * *
The next window is that over the great organ screen dividing the
ante-chapel from the choir. It is arranged thus:
TYPE | TYPE
The Golden Calf | The Massacre of the Seed Royal by
(the introduction of Idolatry). | Queen Athaliah.
|
ANTITYPE | ANTITYPE
The idols of Egypt falling before | The Massacre of the Innocents by
the Holy Child | King Herod.
(the overthrow of Idolatry). |
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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