The Birth of John the Baptist The birth of John the Baptist, Round stained glass with a representation of the Birth of John the Baptist. Elisabeth is sitting with her knees raised in the childbed, supported by pillows in the back. The furniture with which the room has been decorated has been executed in fantasized renaissance forms and ornament. At the foot end there is a table with a jug, a basket of bread and a knife. A maid gives her porridge from a bowl. Mary is sitting on the floor by the fire with Johannes on her lap. A visitor watches while sitting in a turned position on a chair. On the left in the passage sits Zacharias, the father of John, deprived of speech, at a desk, birth of John the Baptist, sometimes Mary present, naming or John the Baptist, Zacharias writing John's name, anonymous, Southern Netherlands, c. 1540, glass, silver stain, d 29.6 cm
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