This database consists of nearly 7,500 images taken by Jane Hayward (1918–1994), curator of medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although Hayward is best known for her work on stained glass, her wide-ranging scholarly interests are reflected in this eclectic collection comprising stained glass, architecture, sculpture, painting, and other media.Corpus Vitrearum, an international group of scholars dedicated to the study of medieval and Early Modern stained glass. Among her key publications are English and French Medieval Stained Glass in the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, rev. and ed. by Mary B. Shepard and Cynthia Clark, 2 vols. Corpus Vitrearum US I (London, Turnhout, and New York: Harvey Miller Publishers and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003); “Two Grisaille Glass Panels from Saint-Denis at The Cloisters,” in The Cloisters: Studies in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary, ed. Elizabeth C. Parker and Mary B. Shepard (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), 302–25; and “The Lost Noah Window from Poitiers,” Gesta 20 (1981): 129–39. For more on Hayward, see Marilyn Stokstad, “Jane Hayward (1918–1994): ‘Radiance and Reflection’” in Women Medievalists and the Academy, ed. Jane Chance (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), ch. 56; and Michael W. Cothren and Mary B. Shepard ed., “Essays on Stained Glass in Memory of Jane Hayward (1918–1994),” Gesta 37 (1998).
This image collection consists primarily of French, German, and English material, but other European countries are also represented, notably Belgium, Italy, and Portugal. The database includes various media and objects ranging from the Early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century.
The Index of Medieval Art holds the copyright to the images and has made them available for both personal research and publication. Send requests to Fiona Barrett to obtain high resolution files. In your request, please cite the exact location and record number.
The Index of Medieval Art thanks Mary Shepard for her contributions to this database. We extend our gratitude to Peter Barnet, Barbara Boehm, Michael Carter, Timothy Husband, and Charles T. Little for transferring the archive to Princeton University. Special thanks go to Meredith Lillich for her help in identifying many of Hayward’s images.