The Good Samaritan Window

The painter then uses a white board as a guide to cut the sheets to individual shapes and color that make a scene and tell a story. Grozing is the next step in which the artist chips away at the glass to obtain the distinct shape needed. Paint was composed of iron fillings and ground glass in wine or urine to achieve a full strength color, which would block the light. After being painted the glass was fired in a kiln, this helps solidify the paint to the glass. Lead is then used to mold and and connect the different pieces to create the stained glass feature. Lead is used because of its tough yet flexible demeanor. It has been able to withstand strong winds and prevents the glass from breaking under pressure. After explaining this process it is no wonder how costly it is to create stained glass windows, but the beauty outweighs the cost.
             The Good Samartian is a complex work of art and tells a story from bottom to top with twenty-four interconnected pieces of the story. The Good Samaritan Window is depicted through each individual scene with its learned allegory on sin and salvation in which it embodies the complexity of Gothic narrative art. That is what makes this so appealing, it is like a quilt a community puts together to tell a story except it's made of glass. It is believed that the bottom three painting of the shoemakers represents gratitude to the donor who made this painting possible. The window shows the fall of Adam and Eve and how they introduced sin into the world, but is also shows a Good Samaritan rescuing a wounded person and takes them to heal and provide a place and nursing them back to health. Throughout the art piece the Good Samartian is shown to help this stranger and no reward is shown to be given. In Christianity it is the belief that Jesus was sent to forgive sin and the Good Samartain is symbolic for Jesus, how he was sent to forgive the sins of Adam and Eve.