Stained glass has to be serious and passionate. It has to live through the perception of light … For me a stained-glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
― Marc Chagall

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Chagall’s free standing stained glass window, Peace, was produced as a memorial to the United Nations secretary general, Dag Hammarskjold, (1905–61), and stands in the lobby of the United Nations headquarters in New York.The memorial, which is 15 feet wide and 12 feet high, features angels in flight, a mother and child, a central tree of paradise, imagery from Isaiah 9:1-7, as well as imagery evoking Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which was a favorite of Mr. Hammarskjold’s.