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  2. English Gothic stained glass windows - Wikipedia

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    The Thomas Becket window features a decorative border in a repeat geometric pattern called a "mosaic diaper", which became a common feature of English windows in this period. Another novel feature of this window is a background of blue enamel painted on the glass, then scratched out to form a diaper pattern.

  3. British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Willement, "the father of Victorian stained glass", active 1811–1869, a plumber by trade, created his first armorial window in 1811, was a restorer of old windows and received a Royal Patent from Queen Victoria. Was employed by Pugin who found him too expensive. 1832–1875. William Warrington, (1796–1869) 1836– Ward and Nixon ...

  4. Stained glass - Wikipedia

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    The most common method of adding the black linear painting necessary to define stained glass images is the use of what is variously called "glass paint", "vitreous paint", or "grisaille paint". This was applied as a mixture of powdered glass, iron or rust filings to give a black colour, clay, and oil, vinegar or water for a brushable texture ...

  5. 21 Vintage Photos of Christmas Window Displays From the Last ...

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    Here, a little girl lovingly points to a baby doll in a window. The photo was taken just four days before Christmas. Fox Photos - Getty Images. Christmas Card Shop: 1938.

  6. French Gothic stained glass windows - Wikipedia

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    The painters placed the window section on an open easel placed before a window, or put the glass flat onto a transparent table, so the artist could see the effect of the light coming through the glass. Once the painting of a pane was finished, it was baked at 600 degrees Celsius to fix the color. [34]

  7. Robert Burns's diamond point engravings - Wikipedia

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    The Black Bull Inn. This is one of the oldest glass engraving techniques, practiced by the ancient Romans probably using flint and in the mid-sixteenth century in England and Holland using diamond tipped tools and a stipple technique to produce landscapes, portraits, still life, etc. [2] Old glass has a higher lead content than the present day and this generally made scribing easier and more ...

  8. Medieval stained glass - Wikipedia

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    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).

  9. Gnome Watching Railway Train - Wikipedia

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    The painting has belonged to Spitzweg's nephew-in-law Major Karl Loreck, Hugo Helbing in Munich, E. Ullmann in Vienna, H. Meyer in Munich (from October 1937) and H. E. Martini in Augsburg (from 1951). On 5 April 2008 it was sold at auction for 69,600 euro. [3] Since the 1950s, it has also gone under the name Gnomen (English: Gnomes). This was ...

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