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Tobias Hallen des Grossenrahts 16[ . . ]\r\n2. Hans Conrad [ . . ] Stattgerichts 1663\r\n3. Johannes Amman Hoffmeister 1663\r\n4.·Johannes Seiller 1663\r\n5.·Tobias Grimm 1663\r\n6. Johannes Schalch 1663\r\n7. Hans Conradt Flaach Rahts 1663\r\n8. Mathis Hertenstein 1663\r\n9. Hans Georg Sigerist Leutenenampt 1663\r\n10. Heinrich Huber [ . . ]arnet 1663\r\n11. Alexander Hutter des Stattgerichts 1663\r\n12. Hans Martin Meyer\r\n13. Hans Ludwig Burgower Hauptman 1663\r\n14. Philip Schal[ . . ] Stattgerichts und [ . . ] 1663\r\n\r\nSkiurus mit der Pfeilen bund/ Macht seinen achzig Sohnenkund/ Das einigkeit geringe sachen/ Vermehren könn und grosser machen/ Unkeinigkeit auch grosse ding/Zerstör und gar zu nichten bring/ O wohl dem lieben vatterlande/ Dass verknüpft mit treues bande !/ O wohl d[ .] wärte Eidgnossschaft/ Weil einigke[ .]t ist deine krafft/ Kinderen nam hierumb geschriben/ Von freudtlichen gemut ge[ . . ]hen/ Dem Herzen dis[ .]s hauss so mild/ Den glasgemalten wapen schildt/ Und was darzu gehoret schenken/ Zu guten wunsch und angedenken /\r\n\r\n(Skiurus with his bound shafts/ Makes it known to his eighty sons/ That unity can increase and make greater, lesser things./ Disunity [can] also destroy greater things/ and even bring them to naught./ Health to the dear fatherland/ that makes the tie with loyalty’s bond!/ Health to the awaited fraternity/ because unity is your strength!/ By those children whose names are inscribed around it/ to whom a friendly spirit has been given/ to the heart of this house, so kind, and all that belongs to it/ this shield of painted glass is given/ as an expression of good wishes and pleasant memories)","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Stanley Mortimer; 1961 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.\n","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Multivocal Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tEuropean stained glass, a highly valued architectural material, received a place of honor in many churches and civic institutions, where it communicated religious and social values. How it did so varied across region and time, as seen in the diverse examples on view here. A royal commission depicting Louis IX (1214–1270), France’s sainted king, or an image of an archangel’s visit to the Virgin Mary to announce that she would be the mother of Christ, show rich colors in stained glass as well as glass painted with neutral line and shading. By the late fifteenth century, realistic three-dimensionality as well as large compositions in uncolored glass became standard. With a transformed economy, and in some cases, early democracy, middle-class individuals commissioned windows. A Swiss rural pastor proclaimed his admiration for the theo-logical insights of the fifth-century North African Saint Augustine and for the preaching skills of John the Baptist. A seventeenth-century town council used one of Aesop’s fables to encourage Swiss solidarity. The inscription extols service and fraternal ties, exclaiming that “unity is your strength!”\n</p>\n<p><b>\n\tVirginia Raguin</b>, Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita, Visual Arts, College of the Holy Cross\n</p>","remarks":"ORI_06_WLA.pdf - Day 1 Installation. Group chat for y1936-5, y1943-65, y1946-102, y1950-26, y1960-55, y1961-52, y1961-55, and y1977-39"}],"datebegin":1663,"sortnumber":"1961   52y","published_date":"2026-07-09 02:00:05.818467","objectid":28714,"dimensions":"43.8 × 34.3 × 0.6 cm (17 1/4 × 13 1/2 × 1/4 in.)\r\nmount: 77 × 50 cm (30 5/16 × 19 11/16 in.)","on_view":true}