NEW! Fathers of the Church Puzzle Kit

Piece Count: 1000
Dimensions: 19.25 x 26.5 inches
Includes: puzzle pieces, cotton bag for storage, glue and spreader to seal your finished puzzle

This item is available for purchase exclusively through the Morse Museum. Clicking the button above will take you to their website. 

About the Morse Museum x The Neustadt: To celebrate the recent loan of our Fathers of the Church mosaic to the Morse Museum in Winter Park, Florida, we’re featuring some exclusive new items from the Morse Museum x The Neustadt.

About the original artwork: Fathers of the Church is one of Tiffany's earliest and most significant mosaics, and the first to be produced by the newly formed women's glass-cutting department. Created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, it was exhibited with the Tiffany chapel to showcase the firm's virtuosity in glass mosaics. The panel depicts a traditional religious subject—three early Church Fathers—in a bold new way. Its shimmering gold background is a nod to historical mosaic traditions in Europe. But by combining multicolored, transparent, and three-dimensional glass to render the figures, Tiffany's studios transformed the art of mosaic into something decidedly new, modern, and distinctly American. This mosaic is on long-term loan to the Morse Museum from the The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, New York.