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The term stained glass is also applied enamelled glass in which the colors have been painted onto the glass and then fused to the glass in a kiln. Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive an appropriate and workable design, and the engineering skills to assemble the piece. A window must fit snugly into the ...
Medieval stained glass is the colored and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows were the major pictorial art form, particularly in northern France, Germany and England, where windows tended to be larger than in southern Europe (in Italy, for example, frescos were more common).
Geoffrey Fuller Webb (5 August 1879 – 20 January 1954) [1] [2] was an English stained-glass artist and designer of church furnishings, based for most of his career in East Grinstead. He was a nephew of the architect Sir Aston Webb and a pupil of Charles Eamer Kempe and Sir Ninian Comper .
art-deco stained glass windows Ernest Jean Gaudin (November 10, 1879 - November 16, 1954) was a French painter , glass and mosaic artist. He was the son of Félix Gaudin , from whom he bought the stained glass and mosaic studio in 1909, and was the father of Pierre Gaudin (1908-1973) and grandfather of Sylvie Gaudin .
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One example is the stained glass window of the doorway of the Hôtel van Eetvelde in Brussels (1895). In France, Art Nouveau stained glass was used by Alphonse Mucha to decorate the interior of the jewelry shop of Georges Fouquet. The windows were made by Léon Fargues. The decor is now found in the Carnavalet Museum.
Alfred Alexander Webster (1883–1915) was a Scottish stained glass artist in the early nineteenth century. His talent established him as the successor to the Glasgow stained glass designer Stephen Adam who in turn considered Daniel Cottier to be his master. Webster was considered one of the most accomplished artists working in stained-glass ...
One of the most prestigious stained glass commissions of the 19th century, the re-glazing of the 13th-century east window of Lincoln Cathedral, Ward and Nixon, 1855. A revival of the art and craft of stained-glass window manufacture took place in early 19th-century Britain, beginning with an armorial window created by Thomas Willement in 1811–12. [1]