Arms of Matthias Seutter the Younger
Unknown Artist
1584
Medium
Stained glass
Dimensions
Overall: 14 1/4 × 10 3/8 in. (36.2 × 26.4 cm)
Classification
Glass-Stained
Culture
Swiss
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1910
Accession Number
10.196.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exquisite stained glass panel, titledArms of Matthias Se the Younger*, dates to 1584 and hails from Swiss culture. Measuring a modest 14¼ × 10⅜ inches, its compact size suggests it was crafted for a private window or domestic setting, a common practice in late Renaissance Switzerland where heraldry adorned homes of prominent families. The unknown artist employed traditional stained glass techniques, using vibrant pot-metal glass pieces leaded together and detailed with vitreous paints fired onto the ...