The North Windows

The windows of the north wall of the nave illustrate the overall theme of the risen Christ as found in the life of his followers.

CREATIVE EXPRESSION

In this window all the arts are illustrated or symbolized. The large composite symbol at the top includes the pen, the artist’s palette, the plumbline used in architecture and the lyre and the keyboard. Some of the artists at work are specific people. These are Abbe Suger shown at the lower left working at his drawing board planning the great Cathedral of St. Denis; Gutenberg at his printing press, next above extending over both lancets, and Bach at his organ. Also seen are an artist at his easel and a folk song singer, upper left and a church choir, upper right. Some products of man’s artistic creativity are the Lutheran hymnal, below Bach, an open book and Michelangelo’s Pieta, opposite Suger at the bottom.