Bay 17 - Key | ||||||
The life of St Mary Magdalen | ||||||
![]() | ![]() |
Index to panels: | ||||
1-3) Christ with Lazarus and Martha ?? 4-6) Christ expels seven demons from Mary Magdalen 7-9) Christ with Mary and Martha ?? 10-12) Supper at the house of Simon the Pharisee 13-15) Christ & Martha / Martha & Martilla ?? 16-18) Martha working while Mary listens to Christ 19-21) Sickness and death of Lazarus 22-24) Funeral of Lazarus 25-27) Consolation of Mary / Mary's appeal to Christ 28-29) The raising of Lazarus | ||||||
Overview: | ||||||
NB. Owing to the unconventional treatment of frames in this window (see below) the web-pages for bay 17 work slightly differently from the other ones. Clicking on any row on the images above will open a detailed view of that whole row in a new window - clicking the detailed view in that window will open another window with a higher-resolution image of just the selected panel. | ||||||
Narrative structure : | ||||||
Though it may at first sight appear quite conventional, in this window, the "Good Samaritan Master" has constructed a tour-de-force of unusual framings (which is why for the purposes of this website I have treated each row as a complete entity). Each row may contain one, two or three distinct scenes and there is a sense, particularly with the fascinating fourth row, that the viewer is deliberately being challenged to disentangle the episodes, rather than simply flitting mechanically from frame to frame. | ||||||
Other details: | ||||||
Grodecki Bay #: 16 | ||||||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |