Milton Stained Glass Window - Springfield, MA
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A Tiffany stained glass window that honors John Milton is located in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in the Quadrangle of Springfield, MA.
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2013
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John Milton was an English poet best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. He was John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608. He attended Christ's College, Cambridge and received a B.A. degree in 1625 and a M.A. degree in 1632.
Milton strongly supported the Puritan cause and was a civil servant under the austere regime of Oliver Cromwell. By 1654, Milton went completely blind and had to dictate his poetry. His blindness inspired one of his most famous sonnets On His Blindness.
Milton's greatest work was the epic blank-verse poem Paradise Lost. He composed the first edition of the poem between 1658 and 1664 and a revised second edition in 1674. Literary critics say that the poem reflects his despair at the failure Cromwell's Revolution. Nonetheless it holds out hope for mans potential. He died shortly after the secon edition was published on November 8, 1674
The George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum was build in the Italianate style in 1895. Renwick, Aspinwall and Renwick were the architects and the stained glass windows were manufactured by the Tiffany Company of New York City. One of the Tiffany windows honors John Milton. The window has the coat of arms of Milton as the major design element of the upper pane and the name MILTON is incorporated into the lower pane.
The Museum is dedicated to the fine and decorative arts. It represents the personal collection and taste of George Walter Vincent Smith. The museum displays Chinese cloisonné, Japanese arms and armor, ivory carvings, ceramics, and other decorative arts.