''A Garden of Glass'' refers to a

stained glass window Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

in the

Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam The Nieuwe Kerk (, ''New Church'') is a 15th-century church in Amsterdam located on Dam Square, next to the Royal Palace. Formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parish, it now belongs to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. Current uses The Nieuwe ...

, designed and installed for the silver jubilee of

Queen Beatrix Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, ; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. Beatrix is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband ...

in 2005, by the artist Marc Mulders. In 2004 the National Committee for the Silver Jubilee of Queen Beatrix was formed. 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."Ramen Mulders tekenen onze tijd"
'' nrc.nl'', 29 April 2005 The window is made up of 40 individual panels that include various mushrooms, flowers and butterflies. It hangs opposite the commemorative window from 1995 celebrating 50 years of freedom. A book was published the same year by Lien Heyting about the window, explaining the symbolism of the various figures. The next year Marc Mulders made a stained-glass window commemorating the re-opening of

Museum Catharijneconvent The Museum Catharijneconvent (St. Catherine's Convent Museum) is a museum of religious art in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is located in the former St. Catharine convent, having been sited there since 1979. Its collections include many artifacts fro ...

with the theme

Apocalypse Apocalypse () is a literary genre in which a supernatural being reveals cosmic mysteries or the future to a human intermediary. The means of mediation include dreams, visions and heavenly journeys, and they typically feature symbolic imager ...

and on 2 September 2016 he made a stained-glass window commemorating

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...

which was installed in the

Janskerk, Gouda The Sint Janskerk in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda, the Netherlands, is a large Gothic architecture, Gothic church, known especially for its stained glass windows, for which it has been placed on the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites, list of the top 100 ...

.Het Erasmusglas van Marc Mulders
, church website File:Marc mulders, vetrata del'apocalisse, 2006, 02.jpg, Apocalypse (detail), Utrecht File:SintJanskerkGouda-Glas1c-Erasmus.jpg, Erasmus window, Gouda

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