The Gouda Windows (1552–1572)

Foreword

List of Illustrations X

Note to the Reader XVii

Introduction

1 Patronage

 1.1 A Clean Slate

 1.2 Clerical Patrons

 1.3 Royal and Noble Donors

 1.4 Employing the Artists

2 The Choir: He Must Increase, and I Must Decrease

 2.1 John the Baptist as a Foil to Christ

 2.2 An Elusive Written Program

 2.3 Testimony about Christ

 2.4 Imprisonment and Death

 2.5 The Bible and St. Augustine

 2.6 Beyond St. Augustine: Erasmus and Herman Lethmaet

 2.7 The Apostle Series in the Clerestory

3 The Transept: There Shall No Sign Be Given

 3.1 A Separate Program?

 3.2 The King’s Window

 3.3 Margaret of Parma’s Gift

 3.4 Jonah and Bileam

 3.5 Turmoil in the Temple

4 The Nave: ‘But Ye Shall Receive Power’

 4.1 Elburga van den Boetzelaer and the Queen of Sheba

 4.2 Margaret of Arenberg as a Second Judith

 4.3 Philip de Ligne, a Crippled Warlord Praying to Be Healed

 4.4 Choir, Transept and Nave: One Narrative?