A Garden of Glass

A Garden of Glass refers to a stained glass window in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, designed and installed for the silver jubilee of Queen Beatrix in 2005, by the artist Marc Mulders.

A Garden of Glass
Een tuin van glas
ArtistMarc Mulders 
Year2005
LocationNieuwe Kerk, Netherlands
Coordinates52°22′26″N 4°53′31″E

In 2004 the National Committee for the Silver Jubilee of Queen Beatrix was formed.[1] The committee settled on a stained glass window in the Nieuwe Kerk as a fitting memorial as that is the location where the Queen was inaugurated.[2] The window is made up of 40 individual panels that include various mushrooms, flowers and butterflies.[2] It hangs opposite the commemorative window from 1995 celebrating 50 years of freedom.[2] A book was published the same year by Lien Heyting about the window, explaining the symbolism of the various figures.[3]

The next year Marc Mulders made a stained-glass window commemorating the re-opening of Museum Catharijneconvent with the theme Apocalypse and on 2 September 2016 he made a stained-glass window commemorating Erasmus which was installed in the Janskerk, Gouda.[4]

  • Apocalypse (detail), Utrecht
  • Erasmus window, Gouda

References
  1. "Regeling - Instellingsbesluit Nationaal Comité Zilveren Regeringsjubileum Koningin Beatrix - BWBR0016368". wetten.overheid.nl. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  2. "Ramen Mulders tekenen onze tijd", nrc.nl, 29 April 2005
  3. Een tuin van glas herdenkingsraam Zilveren Regeringsjubileum Koningin Beatrix 2005, on worldcat
  4. Het Erasmusglas van Marc Mulders Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, church website
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