Created around 1250, the small stained glass panel “God and the Tree of Knowledge” most likely illuminated a cathedral in Troyes, France. To the faithful, its depiction of Christ in the Garden of Paradise would have recalled biblical teachings, and its brilliant sunlit colors might have evoked the Holy Spirit. But this jewel-like fragment and others like it were energy hogs.
That sort of statistic isn’t often associated with the art of the Middle Ages, but “The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550,” a new exhibition opening on March 10 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, brings an environmental perspective to the subject.
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