Healing of the Paralyzed Man at Capernaum (one of a set of 12 scenes from The Life of Christ)

Jan Rombouts

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of Christ’s miracles, the healing of a paralyzed man who was unable to enter the crowded house at Capernaum and so was lowered through the roof, is told in the New Testament. To articulate the scene, stained-glass painters worked on both sides of the window. Silver stain was applied to the verso (the side on the building’s exterior) for the golden yellows, and the black and gray folds of cloth were painted on the recto, or interior side.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art